Sentence examples for obvious flattery from inspiring English sources
Contradictory traditions, marred by the obvious flattery or prejudice by which they are inspired, represent an attempt by narrators to exalt or discredit the Barmakids' character, thus obscuring their true historical role.
Don't be too obvious in your attempts at flattery or they will seem fake and insincere.
But when you have an ear tuned for the reception of flattery, it's hard to hear even the most obvious strains of condescension.
Given the KGB's routine deployment of economic opportunity, flattery and sensitive personal information, this visit is the obvious potential beginning of Trump's soft recruitment as a tool of Russian influence.
She said that while she dismissed the "beautiful" portion of this trope as pointless flattery, she did wonder at bears constantly being misunderstood when it was so obvious what they wanted.
But when I started turning up at strategy meetings at 6.45am each day in Millbank Tower, key planners such as Robin Cook and Patricia Hewitt took to going into corridors and lowering their voices, making it obvious that they disapproved of my presence, which they regarded as proof of Kinnock's fatal susceptibility to flattery.
