Sentence examples for a flattering reference from inspiring English sources

The only Republican that she mentioned was Betty Ford, and that was in a flattering reference.

One was a flattering reference to Roosevelt's new deal as a partial model for Russia.

"They're not like bankers," remarked Indra K. Nooyi, the chief executive of PepsiCo, in a flattering reference.

How did it come about that I was asked in the first place to become a tethered "goat" – a flattering reference to a "government of all the talents"?

In the surest sign that Mitt had donned a more soothing costume, he even made a flattering reference to the United Nations, the bête noire of his hawkish neocon foreign policy advisers.

Their meetings were also tinged with confusion: Charlotte was initially said to be dumbstruck when she met her idol – and confused when he started talking about the scent of cigars, not realising he was making a flattering reference to the scene in chapter XXIII where the smell of Mr Rochester's cigar sets Jane aflutter.

It wasn't a particularly flattering reference — I compared wearing the thing to having a python wrapped around your chest — but it prompted a publicist to send me about 15 assorted underpants and shirts, enough to slim me right out of (x istence.

On Thursday, the Belize Tourism Board said that it would offer free vacations to Vince Gilligan, the "Breaking Bad" creator and show runner, and eight of its stars, including Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, following an offhand and not entirely flattering reference to that Central American nation on Sunday's broadcast of the show.

Koch saw his old professor in the audience, and, Auletta writes, "made flattering reference to his ability as a raconteur".

So it is perhaps understandable that Mr. Anderson makes only passing and none too flattering reference to David Lean's magnificent film about Lawrence.

In the context in which it was said, age-obsessed Americans would have taken the comment as a flattering suggestion that they looked too young to remember whatever historical reference was being made.