unctuously in a sentence
Examples
- James Belushi's larcenous Santa has a slyly amusing gleam in his eye and Martin Mull is briefly entertaining as the weaselly DJ . Phil Hartman is another plus as a lecherous neighbor pretending to be Mr . Perfect, helping with the cookie-baking and the caroling while unctuously reminding Schwarzenegger's family how badly they're being served by the absent husband and father.
- The attending crowd has been thinned, so that the crucified figures are now echoed by three prominent witnesses : a man on horseback depicted in profile wearing a bulbous, unctuously official hat ( taken from a medallion by Pisanello, it also evokes " Alice in Wonderland " ); a soldier with a raised sword and the grieving St . John, whose arms are now extended up and out, as if crucified himself.
- What survives in " Bad Habits " is not so much a focused evening of theater as a pair of overextended burlesque sketches that live or die from joke to joke . . . Mr . McNally is incapable of being completely unfunny, and, in his better moments, he imagines a Dr . Feelgood whose unctuously whispered words of wisdom are babytalk and a skirt-chasing gardener whose libidinal urges are written all over his anatomy, not to mention his face ."
- Absent from " Fresh Air, " too, are the kind of theatrical moments that have become the stock-in-trade of interviews on TV newsmagazines : Ed Bradley executing a " 60 Minutes " moment with a, " So, what you are telling me is . . . "; Larry King unctuously clasping his hands and thrusting his suspendered torso forward to flatter a guest; or Barbara Walters earnestly bending over her clipboard to press the inevitable, and often embarrassing, big question toward which every viewer knows the interview has been building.