paper-pusher

But in January, Mr. Putin transferred command of Ukraine operations to General Gerasimov, handing the reins to someone Mr. Prigozhin regularly pilloried as an incompetent paper-pusher.

The process was that after a patient submitted an ER claim, a paper-pusher at insurer headquarters would examine it retrospectively and determine whether the ER visit had been warranted.

The staff secretary is not a robotic paper-pusher, but a key presidential adviser.

The baffled facial expressions that drove Krasinski’s humorous portrayal of paper-pusher Jim Halpert have been replaced by exasperation in this setting, with the more ominous theme of national security hanging in the balance.

Ortiz delivers a slightly magical paper-pusher, Keener is a woman broken by sadness as we watch helplessly, and Hamm is as stoic outside as he is broken inside.