(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?
Blandish
Definition:
(v. t.) To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.
(v. t.) To make agreeable and enticing.
Example Sentences:
(1) 2.41pm BST A commenter takes issue with our characterization in the intro of Manning's Quantico confinement as being under "harsh conditions" : anairbagsavedmylife 21 August 2013 2:16pm his sentence would be shortened by 112 days as a blandishment for his illegal detention in solitary confinement and other harsh conditions at the Quantico brig in Virginia in 2010-11.
(2) Politicians' blandishments about a spell of CV-enhancing volunteering jar painfully.
(3) "It is absolutely crucial, in view of the expense run up in the search, that Mark resists every blandishment on the part of any individual newspaper to buy up his story.
(4) The idea that the NHS currently stands apart from all this – pure, unsullied, impervious to the evil blandishments of hard-headed business – the one institution that stands single-handedly between ourselves and our preventable deaths, is utterly fallacious.
(5) Now of course all kinds of blandishments are being offered to the survivors.
(6) The social sciences should resist such blandishments and, rather than act in complicity with biomedicine, be free to pursue a more critical role in exposing the theoretical and empirical inconsistencies in the biomedical model.
(7) But the mayor has resisted Cameron’s blandishments, giving the out camp a spectacular boost.
(8) His blandishments include the offer of troops to police a demilitarised zone.
(9) Is there any bribe or blandishment that the Tories will not use as the prospect of losing a quarter of their kingdom looms?
(10) These are the people who could eventually suffer and die from Cameron's blandishments to the dictators.
(11) That leaves the question: are these approaches and blandishments the tentative beginnings of a new pragmatism emerging in Obama's relations with business leaders?
(12) Listen to his blandishments during a media tour this week: "When you back up and look at Apple's effect on job creation in the United States, we estimate that we've created more than 600,000 jobs now," Cook told Brian Williams of NBC's Rock Center .
(13) It has fallen to Pius XII to denounce Communist ideology in such an implacable manner as to forfend a series of schisms on the part of Catholics tempted to yield to Communist blandishments.
(14) The form has developed - from the 18th-century English invention of child portraiture, through the mass-marketed blandishments of Kate Greenaway and Cicely Mary Barker, to cutesy cards and blushing bottom advertising.
(15) The king's speech was largely about the Saudis responding to the blandishments of the US, trying to make life a little tougher for Assad by swapping some unusually frank neighbourly criticism for a deafening regional silence.
(16) All of which explains why new parents are uniquely susceptible to the blandishments of companies looking to part them from their money.
(17) Another junta consideration is China's increasingly overbearing behaviour, which contrasts unfavourably with the attractive blandishments, real and potential, attendant on improved relations with India , Japan and others intent on curbing Beijing's ambitions.
(18) In addition, Judge Lind said his sentence would be shortened by 112 days as a blandishment for his illegal detention in solitary confinement and other harsh conditions at the Quantico brig in Virginia in 2010-11.
(19) The problem for BA is that, after months of this, passengers and agents are sceptical, and quite frankly bored, of its blandishments.
(20) There has been no "decisive blow" against the Taliban, contrary to Obama's Tuesday blandishment.