Olyphant, Danes, and Quaid play characters who are squirrely and off-putting by design, but doesn’t even try to penetrate their veneer of wealth long enough to ingratiate them before it flips the script and reveals their secrets.

Source: https://filmschoolrejects.com/full-circle-steven-soderbergh-review/

“The goal was to ingratiate the Exelon organization to Madigan so he would do its political bidding in Springfield.

Source: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/9/29/23895639/sec-comed-ceo-anne-pramaggiore-fraud-corrupt-pursuit-clout

The way to ingratiate yourself with Trump was simple: just say nice things about him on TV.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/27/biden-media-tv-00093174?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

This has helped ingratiate players to the beauty of Tears of the Kingdom's world.

Source: https://www.cbr.com/tears-of-the-kingdom-delay-good-polish-nintendo/

Twitter owner Elon Musk gave incels who pay $7 a month to ingratiate themselves with their dear leader the ability to post long tweets.

Source: https://boingboing.net/2023/02/11/musk-rolls-out-new-twitter-feature-declares-it-terrible.html

When inhabiting potentially hard to love characters, how do you ingratiate them to an audience?

Source: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2023-06-06/comedy-emmy-roundtable-anthony-carrigan-phil-dunster-janelle-james-delroy-lindo-adam-scott-molly-shannon-jessica-williams

Willa has given up trying to ingratiate herself with them and now just works on a new play on her phone.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/characters-from-succession-as-members-of-an-improv-team