Sentence examples for in flattery from inspiring English sources

Working as a doctor in Sierra Leone a couple of months ago I was showered in flattery.

Cordelia (Pepter Lunkuse), speaking in true tones, sounds a false note: unlike her sisters, she will not mask her feelings in flattery.

Julius ends his exercise in flattery by comparing Berman to Julien Benda ("The Treason of the Intellectuals"), once a symbol of liberalism's rectitude in the face of overweening power.

Who could be used to unvarnished comments like those published on Tuesday in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica? "The leprosy of the papacy," Francis said, was the culture of the Vatican court that was devoted to cosseting popes in flattery.

Silicon Valley is already knee-deep in flattery.

"That's where we've got to give young people resilience, so if there's a charismatic criminal with a perverse ideology trying to groom them, they can say: 'Hang on, I know that's not Islam, I know that's not the way to get to heaven.' "Just like if you're the parent of young children not to take sweets from strangers, you teach young children not to be taken in by flattery in a chatroom".

In other words, flattery in fashion doesn't debase the flatterer, it puffs him or her up.

Valenti attached a note, saying, "Funny, how all of a sudden I am now bright, charming, delightful — when a year ago, I was a valet and a clumsy Texas oaf!" In the movie colony, his flamboyance fit right in, his flattery was well received, his verbal affectation was much admired.

From the same production team as Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, this is a moderately amusing film in conventional sitcom fashion, and is a form of flattire, the genre in which flattery poses as satire.

Your breasts, your thighs, your love cave - I can tell you about them.' When this line in dubious flattery does eventually, and remarkably, give Ryszard access to the 'love cave' in question ('Let me kiss you, Maryna.' 'Don't.' 'So I will never hold you in my arms.'Neverer? Never! Who knows what that means?') you may well feel that he and Maryna deserve each other.

They don't indulge in idle flattery".