Sentence examples for Extravagant praise from inspiring English sources

To remark that "Here Comes Trouble" is by far Mr. Moore's best book isn't extravagant praise.

Closer to Calzaghe's home, there are other disservices implicit in McGuigan's extravagant praise.

"He is quite a unique player," Martínez said, again displaying his capacity for extravagant praise.

In any case, Netherland was greeted with extravagant praise by some of America's most influential critics.

Instead, they appeared to be pre-occupied with lavishing extravagant praise on the winners.

The vanquished Frenchman even reckoned Edmund might be better on clay than his world No3 compatriot, extravagant praise that will raise a few eyebrows.

At times in this book you sense the author going well out of his way to lay down extravagant praise, like palm fronds, before proceeding with mild cavils.

In his native Santiago, hundreds gathered for his funeral on Saturday, and celebrities and politicians competed to offer the most extravagant praise.

In "Baby Doll," Mr. Williams sings extravagant praises to a woman who, it turns out, he just met.

Notably, he succeeds in the difficult task of saying something original about the German writer W G Sebald: he sees it as ironic that Sebald's work garnered such extravagant critical praise, given that the author himself was profoundly distrustful of any sort of celebratory fervour.

Second, coalition policy and practice have hardly followed through on the non-selective principles that Vine so enthusiastically espouses, be that in its covert support for expansion of the grammars to the establishment of highly selective and costly free school sixth forms or the usual extravagant, irrelevant praise heaped on private schools.