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Personally, I switch off whenever I see anyone tweeting blanket praise and I'm willing to bet others do too.
It has benefited him because it has helped to expose qualities in his poems which the blanket praise of the late 70s and 80s tended to disguise, and thereby to enrich them.
Mel and Sue have received blanket praise for their refusal to "follow the dough" to Channel 4, but I have always maintained a dignified silence about my own noble sacrifices.
But even on such a day, lurking beneath the blanket praise for Mandela and his legacy there remain the freedoms not yet achieved, the millions who remain in poverty and angered daily by cavernous inequality.
The blanket praise and cult fanbase earned from the release of Everything All the Time in March 2006 was followed by a rapid commercial breakthrough primarily thanks to "The Funeral" – a slow-burner that won a surprising amount of American radio airplay, appeared in a number of TV shows and can still be heard on a Ford advertising campaign.
Yet, as is often the way when something gets mythologised, much of its nuance and character is neglected in favour of blanket praise.
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And, at an early Christmas dinner of omnivores, this disappeared even faster than the pigs in blankets – high praise indeed.
The mindset ideas were developed as a counter to the self-esteem movement of blanketing everyone with praise, whether deserved or not.
But the reactions, which range from praise to blanket condemnation, are a far cry from the invariably positive feedback Al Qaeda gets on moderated jihadist forums.
She was presented with the award by her friends Hugo Weaving, who paid tribute to the young Melburnian drama student once known as "Cathy Blanket", and Richard Roxburgh, who praised an actor who always gave her all.
"I reject any blanket suspicion," Archbishop Marx said, praising the thousands of people who work for the church.
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