Sentence examples for dispensing praise from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless he had a gruff affection for the most exasperating of his young Turks, dispensing praise and disapproval with equal vigour.

The business of management rarely engages secretaries of state, but it is an obsession in the modern American military -- developing and motivating talent, delegating authority while holding subordinates to account, dispensing praise and trust in exchange for loyalty and hard work, tending to morale.

Realizing that we are proud creatures, highly susceptible to flattery, they were able to dupe many of us to live up to the ideal of virtue conquering our selfish passions and helping others by dispensing praise and blame.

Even Plaxico Burress, the mercurial wide receiver, could not help but dispense praise for his new teammate and practice opponent.

The days of dispensing paltry praise for pence, Amazon promises, are over.

He dispenses praise to strong contemporary women artists and characters with a metaphorical head pat, not acknowledging that they may embody a new form of adulthood.

And he has dispensed advice, praise and neck-and-shoulder massages in their three-day trip here, associates said.

Instead he dispensed halfhearted praise, commending Lula's wisdom in imitating Cardoso's own policies, even if the new government's neophyte ministries struck him as beset by "a lack of coordination".

In general, they dispense with praise and highlight problems, each in a shorthand: Chabon marks passages with "D.B.," for "Do Better," a notation he adopted from Daniel Menaker, for years a fiction editor at this magazine.

"It's important to me to tell people I'm not just a face on screen," she said in an interview on a recent afternoon as she examined the prototypes, freely dispensing pans and praise to a phalanx of Payless buyers and executives.

What's accepted, what's not; the tone of an editorial conference; whether bullying – sadly commonplace — goes unchecked; the dispensing of praise or the nature of the inevitable roasting when the goods aren't delivered.