— than persist in fawning over restaurants that purvey simple cooking.
Although Louis was devoted to Cinq-Mars, the young man provoked quarrels with him that ended in fawning reconciliations.
In fawning profiles in the business press, dairy clichés flew: Mr. Engles was "cream of the crop," "head of the herd" and "milkman to the nation".
Veron supplied lemon yellow wallpaper, pale blue curtains with yellow draperies, eagle cornices and an immense Brussels carpet in fawn, yellow and blue with a red border.
Where other establishments' doormen are pallid, haughty lieutenants draped in fawn liveries, Chanel's is a pink-cheeked fellow in wooden-soled shoes and a green ulster who looks as if he'd be handy with spring lambs.
A man in fawn chinos and lemon jersey, another in a charcoal suit and chestnut brogues, a third in striped trousers and suede sneakers: each is himself (and occasionally herself) but conspicuously part of a series.
Julian Temple's Joe Strummer biog, The Future Is Unwritten, is no exception, turning "the man of the people" into a celebrity guru: the likes of Bono and Johnny Depp discuss Joe in fawning, shamanic terms.
