Примеры 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.