The phrase "accepting praise" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the act of receiving compliments or positive feedback from others.
Example: "She has always struggled with accepting praise, often downplaying her achievements."
Alternatives: "receiving compliments" or "embracing accolades."
If Imelda Staunton has a problem, it's accepting praise.
She does not stalk the dining room in gleaming whites, glad-handing patrons and accepting praise.
He's a "Midwestern boy who comes from a place where accepting praise and accolades is physically painful and even the hint of confidence in one's talents is sin No. 1," he wrote.
No matter the motivation, it is clear that Watterson is now more comfortable accepting praise for his artistic contributions and wants to be a vibrant part of the cartooning community again.
Those stories cover topics like cancer, kids (or lack thereof), abortions/ voluntary interruptions" and accepting praise.
Are lots of women awful at accepting praise?
"She was content merely to accept praise for illustrating her husband's work," the historians Robert L. Herbert and Daria D'Arienzo write in "Orra White Hitchcock: An Amherst Woman of Art and Science" (Mead Art Museum).
After seeing "Mad Hot Ballroom," she loved the idea that the children "learn how to take a bow, learn how to touch each other properly" and "how to give each other praise and accept praise".
God give me a restlessness whereby I may neither sleep nor accept praise till my observed results equal my calculated results or in pious glee I discover and assault my error.
Tyree accepted praise with humility and on several occasions spoke about working through a "dark time" in his career, which he explained after his speech was an arrest for marijuana possession.
The same authors who mope and whine about a negative comment here and there are only too glad to accept praise that is not warranted, kudos they do not deserve.
