Sentence examples for meaningless praise from inspiring English sources

The answer, then, is not to heap meaningless praise on our employees or, for that matter, our children or friends, but to criticize constructively — and sparingly.

My wife, citing the general cloud of meaningless praise that floats around children these days, gives Norah a "hear hear": "Praise is so child-centered right now that the idea that the child is not the center of the universe is a foreign idea to the child.

In this context, where tidiness and sense-making are the worst of all vices, "arbitrary" and "meaningless" are terms of praise.

The criticism, no matter how virulent, has long since ceased to bother me, but the price of this is that the praise is equally meaningless.

And there are few more shaming things than to be forced to drizzle praise on work which you find meaningless or fake.

Experts praised the president for tweeting something meaningless and boring on his first try.

However inviolate our self-esteem, most of us have felt a sinking of the spirit before a work of art that, while highly praised by critics, to us seems meaningless.

Over-praising can also lead to a child viewing your compliments as meaningless and not special.

This kind of praise is so broadly true of most controversial public figures as to be meaningless.

Rebel pilots constantly saying "Good shot;" should save praise for moments of real achievement instead of spreading it around in this meaningless feel-good gesture.

However, O'Neal praised the satire of people looking too deeply into the meaning of meaningless art, and how easily that theme can be applied to South Park itself.