What's the difference between adulatory and flattering?

Adulatory


Definition:

  • (a.) Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lawrence, this year's best actress Oscar-winner thanks to her scene-stealing turn in David O Russell's Silver Linings Playbook, received an adulatory write-up from fellow actor Jodie Foster.
  • (2) In some quarters, the reception has been so adulatory that you could have been fooled into thinking that he had won himself a place alongside Abraham Lincoln in the pantheon of great orators and the Gettysburg Address now had a rival in the Bloomberg Speech.
  • (3) Suharto's adulatory biographer, OG Roeder, records in The Smiling General (1969) his subject was "well known for his tough, but not brutal, methods".
  • (4) For them, the Texan senator’s adulatory words were as hard to swallow as they were for liberals mindful of the Republican party’s historic record in this area.
  • (5) He was the subject of films, cartoons and at least one rock song, by Scritti Politi; he generated both adulatory and vituperative journalism; and he wrote some of the most formidably difficult philosophical works of his time.
  • (6) The first trailer for Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel's Princess Diana biopic has hit the web, hinting at an adulatory portrait of the figure it dubs "the most famous woman in the world".
  • (7) Alongside came more popular works of exegesis - a Historical Association pamphlet on Cromwell (1958), the bestselling (but not adulatory) biography God's Englishman (1970), the textbook The Century Of Revolution (1961) and the hugely successful Penguin economic history, Reformation To Industrial Revolution (1967).
  • (8) It is a testament to how conservative the US entertainment industry has become about abortion in the past quarter-century that Obvious Child has been greeted with such adulatory relief by pro-choice audiences.
  • (9) They have both performed impressively in meeting the public, who have turned out in large and adulatory numbers, and engaging those they have met in more than perfunctory conversations.
  • (10) Suharto's adulatory biographer, OG Roeder, records in The Smiling General (1969) that his subject was "well known for his tough, but not brutal, methods".
  • (11) During the first two days of their tour in Ottawa, the royal couple have been greeted by huge and adulatory crowds.

Flattering


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flatter
  • (a.) That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (2) With profound blockade, the slope of the edrophonium dose-response relationship was significantly flatter (P less than 0.05) than that of neostigmine.
  • (3) The groups showed significantly different iEMG fatigue slopes, with the control group showing declining iEMG by repetition, while the CLBP group showed flatter, slightly increasing iEMG.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Farage ’flattered’ by Trump’s call for him to be US ambassador In another shot at Obama, referring to remarks by the US president before the Brexit vote about the possible trade consequences of Britain leaving Europe, Farage said: “No longer do we have a president who says that we’re at the back of the line.” Everything you need to know about Trump and the Indiana Carrier factory Read more He also said Hillary Clinton, Trump’s opponent, had “wanted the European Union to be a prototype for a bigger model across the whole world”.
  • (5) "It may not be nice, kind or flattering, but to put it as unlawful would be startling," White said.
  • (6) Carbamazepine has a flatter concentration-time profile than valproic acid.
  • (7) Flattered, entreated, begged by the rest of the committee, he did not yield: "Recommendations are recommendations, there it is"; and "I honestly believe it's all there"; "I promise you I have done my very best"; "if I hadn't thought my recommendations were fit for purpose, I would not have made them"; "with all due respect, I could not have done any more than I did".
  • (8) Perhaps the most flattering epitaph for Ronnie Biggs, who has died aged 84, was written for him many years ago by the unlikely figure of the former commissioner of the Metropolitan police Sir Robert Mark .
  • (9) "So that was very flattering and a little surprising," she says.
  • (10) When spectrin was rebound to the erythrocyte membrane, a decay in the anisotropy was still present but was markedly less sensitive to solution viscosity and flatter at longer times.
  • (11) Things are different now: wonks observe that we’ve got lucky with the chairs – Margaret Hodge on the public accounts committee (PAC), Rory Stewart on defence, Sarah Wollaston on health – but committee work is flattered mainly by comparison with everything else.
  • (12) We praise and flatter each other and automatically learn the details of each other's lives.
  • (13) One-day chicks displayed reliably flatter generalization gradients than 3-4-day chicks.
  • (14) Early flattering comparisons were made with the Strokes and Sonic Youth.
  • (15) Their pay structure is flatter and their sense of responsibility to the community stronger.
  • (16) I will propose a new school funding model from the commonwealth which will be flatter, simpler, fairer to all the states and territories and equitable between students,” he said.
  • (17) The instantaneous I-V curve was linear while in the steady state the curve became flatter at low negative membrane potentials and steeper at high negative membrane potentials.
  • (18) To describe this course of action as "clutching at straws" is to flatter it.
  • (19) She should be confronting her party's prejudices, not flattering them.
  • (20) The steeper the curve of Spee, the more irregular the cusp height and angulations are with steeper anterior cusps and flatter posterior cusps.

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