flattery

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Examples of flattery

  • As part of this policy, ' promises, flattery and threats were employed ' to bring the clergy round to his views.

  • The island is an allegory of the insubstantial promises and flatteries that people must subsist on to survive in this world.

  • By appropriating the music of his enemy, he cloaks his subterfuge in flattery.

  • While individual citizens will vary in their sensitivity to implicit denigration or explicit flattery, on average authoritarian speech should elicit more disaffiliation and electoral speech should elicit more affiliation.

  • I am not asking for flattery for my colleagues.

  • After all, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

  • If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, we know the judgment of the rest of the world on our record.

  • Fifty-two days is quite long enough for me to learn to avoid the temptations and seductions of flattery.

  • I am bewildered by this combination of insults and flattery.

  • I notice that he, too, has gone, probably because of a surfeit of flattery.

  • A salesman who starts with a little flattery or soft soap will sometimes sell a very good insurance policy.

  • The proposed system is an invitation to schools to buy flattery.

  • We have shown the sincerest form of flattery, which is imitation, for some centuries.

  • A little flattery gets one a long way.

  • He was exaggerating in his flattery of my spin bowling.

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