The viewer gets so used to candidates truckling to self-important television types that the three-hour Democratic debate in New Hampshire provided two refreshing exceptions.
As in all political life, there is the effect of contrivance rather than spontaneity, of truckling to slogans rather than living by inner compulsions.
In Hollywood, most of the cynicism is found behind the scenes in the conference rooms where a film's every truckling nuance is debated.
Conrad Black in guardian.co.uk The British pay a heavy price for having national media that are so narrowly concentrated and uniform in their group-think, so conditioned to truckling to head boy, whether it's an incumbent newspaper chairman or any conventional wisdom,Lord...