Sentence examples for flattering ones from inspiring English sources
By skipping around in the book of recent history and focusing on the chapters about ourselves, particularly the exciting, flattering ones, we missed the important part: the plot.
Mitt's foray showed some new colors, as he intended, but they were not flattering ones.
Then there are the more flattering ones that compare candidates to lionized figures of the conservative movement like Ronald Reagan.
Seated at the Famiglietti dining table, the filmmakers sifted through pictures of Mr. Famiglietti at his heftiest, seeking the least flattering ones for their publicity.
That makes it tempting to offer sneak peeks of the most flattering ones, as Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, did recently when she told El País, a Spanish newspaper, that a forthcoming statistical revision would raise economic growth in 2012 from 0.9% to a less weak 1.5%.
Amazon's sales figures over Christmas reaffirmed its supremacy in online bookselling, but in one of its myriad activities – its role as a forum for criticism – it seems that it just can't win: when it's not coping with a brouhaha caused by aggressive reviews, Jeff Bezos's behemoth is provoking protests by removing flattering ones, and also by not removing them.
Below, you will find some of Hollywood's hottest beach bodies soaking up the sun's rays -- be it poolside, on exotic shores or on glossy magazine covers, in tiny two-pieces or in flattering one-piece suits.
The family portrait you paint in "Upside-Down Cake" isn't a very flattering one.
KRAJESKI: You make a cameo — a very flattering one — in the novel as yourself, the former poetry editor at The New Yorker.
But the mirror that Naipual holds up to contemporary civilization is a less than flattering one: The tragic view he has expressed from the very beginning, which has seemed to afford him a tonic /strange kind of comfort, offers little in the way of ordinary solace.
Broomfield's film is smaller and less glossy than Macdonald's, and suffers from a certain paucity of credible talking heads: Houston's family, closest associates and ex-husband Bobby Brown all gave their face-time only to Macdonald's film, lending it the air of an authorised biography, albeit not an especially flattering one.
