(n.) A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.
(n.) A brace used to join two or more staves.
Example Sentences:
(1) The work, The Spear, by Brett Murray, unleashed a brouhaha that has hogged headlines for more than a week in South Africa and earned that inexhaustible accolade "painting-gate".
(2) And that’s very unusual, for a so-called serious composer, to write a piece that people like so much, and they don’t care who it’s by.” Anonymity in your own lifetime – the ultimate accolade for a contemporary classical composer.
(3) But Y Polyn does win accolades for robust country cooking and down-at-home style.
(4) Their accolade came on the day they were announced as the headline act at the 2012 Olympics closing celebration concert in Hyde Park.
(5) The NFU Mutual, which won the accolade of being Which?
(6) For whatever accolades are dished out, the hard graft of science continues.
(7) Admittedly the winner was Bradley Wiggins, which somewhat takes the shine off the accolade.
(8) In spite of his life seeming superficially great, in spite of all the praise and accolades, in spite of all the loving friends and family, there is a predominant voice in the mind of an addict that supersedes all reason and that voice wants you dead.
(9) John Makumbe, a politics professor at the University of Zimbabwe, said of Mugabe's accolade: "I think it's ridiculous because Zimbabwe is one of the countries least used by tourists.
(10) It's probably just a fire in one of the townships.” Following Torino, Seoul and Helsinki, Cape Town is the fourth city to be awarded the title of World Design Capital, an accolade bestowed by the Montreal-based International Council for Societies of Industrial Design , which charges a hefty fee to honour a different city with its logo each year.
(11) Because the Trail Blazers didn't make many major moves during the offseason, they started the season as an afterthought in the incredibly competitive Western Conference and their early success provoked more skepticism than accolades.
(12) After scoring four number ones with her debut album, Gaga was lauded as the new queen of pop with the industry queuing to lay accolades at her feet.
(13) The first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded in 1901, and its receipt is widely regarded as one of the highest accolades in science.
(14) Notable Mercury-friendly accolades: They were nonimated for a Mercury back in 2005 (and lost out admirably to the mighty I Am a Bird Now by Antony and the Johnsons).
(15) In Pakistan , news of the Nobel prize has led to an outpouring of accolades from official figures, led by the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, who called her “the pride of Pakistan”.
(16) London isn’t the best city for hostels ( that accolade goes to Lisbon ) but that’s improving too with Clink , Generator , Wombats and the good ol’ YHA all offering family rooms.
(17) There have been accolades, including "publisher of the year" in May, but one thing that has not changed, despite Barnsley's best efforts, is HarperCollins's UK ranking – in fourth position behind Penguin, Random House and Hachette.
(18) But those of us who were lucky enough to have spent five minutes with him – or more – know that he never set out to attain any of these high accolades.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Zaha Hadid walks out of a BBC Radio 4 Today programme interview Still, her projects have nonetheless been showered with accolades, twice receiving the Stirling prize – for the MAXXI museum in Rome and the Evelyn Grace academy school in Brixton – and she was the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker prize more than a decade ago, making RIBA’s choice now seem a little like it is trying to catch up.
(20) His rivals weren't even born when he last won the accolade in 1984, but David Bowie saw experience triumph over youth as he was crowned best British male at the Brit awards.
Adulate
Definition:
(v. t.) To flatter in a servile way.
Example Sentences:
(1) Riva, the oldest nominee ever for best actress category, has a very Gallic disdain for such public adulation.
(2) Customers at her plush boutique in central Cairo are offered a choice between chocolates coated with his face and others embossed with messages of adulation.
(3) It gave the occasion the feel of a testimonial, although some players warrant such adulation.
(4) Feminists, myself included, focused on the killer’s misogyny, his furious sense that women owed him something, that he had a right to whatever pleasure and adulation they could deliver.
(5) And in both introducing and summing up the debate, she along with many of her political peers currently receiving all the public adulation of the childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang spoke more intelligently, authoritatively and compassionately about mental health than I've heard from many a professional.
(6) Did he heed the global outpouring of adulation that elevated Mandela, who died aged 95 last December, to virtual sainthood?In that moment, did the president of Zimbabwe reflect on his own legacy and the cold judgment of history?
(7) Mohammed Samy's message was a succinct model of blind adulation: "Fairouz is my life."
(8) We softened up over the years, we have to stop being pussies.” When the Guardian also informs him about Trump’s plan to ban foreign Muslims entering the country, he says: “Sounds good to me.” Two sides to every coin But such signs that Trump is consolidating his advantage, that the more outrageous his pronouncements become the more his followers adulate him, tell only half the story.
(9) All issues of sentiment, underdoggery and fairytale glee aside, it is an achievement that deserves at least a slice of the adulation being lavished on the champions-elect.
(10) The hit prompted an outpouring of adulation for the Yankees captain, from press and public, and also a rash of conspiracy theories considering the pitch delivered by the Oriole’s Evan Meek.
(11) It’s like ‘not a third Bush, not a second Clinton’.” By forming the new group, Sagrans is aiming to harness some of this raw adulation towards a more professionalised outfit that can appeal to Democrats who pull some strings in national politics.
(12) Another avalanche of adulation is about to asphyxiate us; with glossy supplements on “The Greatest Reign”, exhibitions in royal palaces selling souvenir albums, and Douglas Hurd’s gushing biography, Elizabeth II: The Steadfast .
(13) And, if one is not at the zenith of adulation of the Pacific islanders who believe the Prince to be the penis-gourd-sporting Melanesian Messiah, then, at the very least, the example of Britain's longest-serving monarchal consort is deserving of our – and, more specifically, the Duchess of Cambridge's – interest.
(14) And yet the very craving for adulation, the need to chalk up successes, the deep, even cynical, pragmatism also predicted that Trump would have no stomach for Bannon’s reign of terror.
(15) Like a Mao in miniature, he seemed both to enjoy and have contempt for the adulation that surrounded him.
(16) He was greeted with adulation and reverence by Barack Obama, a joint session of Congress, the United Nations general assembly and, finally, the city of brotherly love.
(17) And I don’t believe that he could have coped with the adulation of fans for very long.
(18) The adulation in Kosovo is all the more striking for the contrast to its object's reputation in his home country, where, following the invasion of Iraq, the Blair name is a brand so toxic the Labour party goes out of its way to avoid him.
(19) The rapper – who performed to screaming adulation with Alicia Keys – became the most successful solo artist in the history of the US Billboard chart, after his 11th album, Blueprint 3, went to number one, surpassing Elvis Presley's record.
(20) And how will Aung San Suu Kyi, who has repeatedly said she detests being described as a saint or an icon, cope with the adulation she will receive this week?