Sentence examples for flattering references from inspiring English sources

Cynics may note some elements in "Origins" — a high body count among the people on "our" side, less than flattering references to the United States — that became less prevalent after "Strike Back" became a half-American show.

Just consider the serial posturings of your average panel discussion -- the sycophantic introductions, the flattering references by the panelists to one another's work, the showtime vehemence of the professional radical, the slow-talking gravity of the emeritus thumb-sucker, the pompous pose of cogitation that symposiasts adopt as they pretend to listen to the other speakers.

In my country we have seen some inappropriate legislation: Mr Gollnisch, for instance, wanted school curricula to include flattering references to France's colonial work.

That these might be preemptive libel-avoiding manoeuvres is a notion undermined by the none-too-flattering references to Assange, including that he's "an autistic megalomaniac sex creep".

L. asked me about strategies for applying for jobs when one's adviser was either unwilling or unable to write a flattering letter of reference.

Pullman was "flattered" by the references in the episode, and compared Davies' actions to his own practice of referencing works.

For the shopper, this translates into a season awash with retro references and flattering silhouettes, prints and embellishments.

So the reference, while flattering, is probably, as Ms. Cicognani said, "more like a cliché than the truth".

On the one hand, it suggests commercial theatre is a timelessly precarious business: on the other, it flatters us with its references to the specific conditions of Elizabethan theatre.

Rome's unruliness and ostentation provide a flattering, reassuring point of reference, and there's nary a handsome actor who doesn't look even better in sandals and a vintage tunic.

Swift, however did not appear to be flattered by the reference, as her publicist sent the New York Times an extremely terse denial that she gave Kanye any blessing to write it.