- 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 an oil on
canvas painting by
Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte,
created in 1927-1928. It...
- three-w****
tours in
March and May–June. As
their po****rity spread, a
frenzied adulation of the
group took hold. On 13 October, the
Beatles starred on
Sunday Night...
- century,
critical admiration for Shakespeare's
genius often bordered on
adulation. "This King Shakespeare," the
essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote in 1840, "does...
- 1935, he had
become a well-loved king,
saying in
response to the crowd's
adulation, "I
cannot understand it,
after all I am only a very
ordinary sort of...
- spontaneous, but some was stage-managed as part of Goebbels'
propaganda work.
Adulation of
Hitler was the
focus of the 1934
Nuremberg Rally,
where his
moves were...
-
although Allen thought it more
accurate to
state that she was "addicted to
adulation",
suggesting that this
stemmed from a
narcissistic element to Bhutto's...
- Boot
worship is the
extreme adulation of
boots in BDSM,
usually carried out
while the
footwear is
being worn by the
dominant partner. It is
related to...
-
Fraser was
acclaimed as "more objective ... free from the
excesses of
adulation or attack" that had
characterised older biographies, and her contemporaries...
- was
nothing he
liked so much as flattery, or, to put it more plainly,
adulation; the co****r and
clumsier it was, the more he
relished it. For his part...
