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Flattery (also
called adulation or blandishment) is the act of
giving excessive compliments,
generally for the
purpose of
ingratiating oneself with the...
- The
Adulation of
Space (French: L'éloge de l'espace) is a
painting in oil on canvas, 81 × 116 cm,
created between 1927–28 by
Belgian surrealist artist...
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which his MRND-party
enforcers required people to
chant and
dance in
adulation of the
President at m****
pageants of
political "animation".
While the...
- of aristocrats,
civil servants, and army officers, and
surrounded with
adulation the head of the state, the
counterrevolutionary Admiral Horthy. Although...
- has only
recently become the
subject of
serious study rather than fan
adulation, and much is yet to be
written about him. "The time for
scholars to say...
- and her
performance as
Annie Wilkes was met with
widespread critical adulation. Also that year, she had a role in
Warren Beatty's
crime film **** Tracy...
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simultaneously an
artist and an
object of
unrelenting public interest and
adulation", and
Juliet John
backed up the
claim for ****ens "to be
called the first...
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Though Cream were
hailed as one of the
greatest groups of its day, and the
adulation of
Clapton as a
guitar legend reached new heights, the
supergroup was...
- century,
critical admiration for Shakespeare's
genius often bordered on
adulation. "This King Shakespeare," the
essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote in 1840, "does...
- Harper's W****ly, 7
December 1867.
Author David Lodge called ****ens the "first
writer to be an
object of
unrelenting public interest and
adulation"....
