Sentence examples for seeking praise from inspiring English sources

When I am proud of myself and brag about what I've done, I generally know when I'm seeking praise.

A seven-campus socialization study of undergraduate students showed that men were motivated by competition with their peers, whereas women were seeking praise from their teachers that they rarely got (Seymour and Hewitt, 1997).

Rubio has been inordinately proud of this mindless act of vandalism, like a puppy seeking praise for soiling the carpet.

Every ploy has been tried, pro and con, from the emerging author seeking praise and sales by purchasing reviews to an organized advocacy group determined to destroy a work, as seen with Randall Sullivan's Michael Jackson biography, Untouchable.

Trump's earlier Tweet seeking praise for himself did attract some from fans, but also earned plenty of backlash for being "egotistical" and taking credit for just doing his job.

People in the latter group are seeking praise for tokenization and the perpetuation of language they know will paint them as "woke". An image of wokeness, no matter how lazily applied, gives one voice and agency in the discourse.

How can we be in a position where, on one hand, the government seeks praise for its claim to have safeguarded the NHS, while on the other it takes the axe to the very services that keep vulnerable people out of hospital?

Under such labels as "fairness and equality," this document amounts to a turgidly written manifesto in which the Obama administration seeks praise from the U.N. Human Rights Council for "progress" in dismantling the capitalist system.

The more you praise yourself, the less you will be driven to seek praise from others.

The New York Times Public Editorr, Margaret Sullivan, recently sought praise for her launch of "AnonyWatch," which she explains is "intended to draw attention to the gratuitous use of unnamed sources".

He seeks praise; when his agent Garland asks if he's seen the glowing review in the Herald, Barton says "No", even though his producer had just read it to him.