Messiaen's spirituality was anything but warm and fuzzy, his style often the opposite of ingratiating, and that is what finally saves his work from kitsch.
I am not an ingratiating sort of person.
The process can be corrected only by a strong and forceful personality who is not concerned with ingratiating himself with the establishment.
Ingratiating ourselves and subservience will get us nowhere at all.
There is no question of my trying to be ingratiating, or to wheedle something out of him.
They are trying to find ways of ingratiating themselves with people all over the country.
We make no vaunting or ingratiating claims.
But he had his detractors, who tended to view him as a shameless opportunist who had a knack for ingratiating himself.
