Yet she does not document buildings, aim to ingratiate herself with architects and art editors, or even seek to flatter the works of personal favourites such as Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid and Peter Zumthor.
Unlike the rich and prominent of decades past, who sought to flatter their own sense of power by commissioning stately, idealized oil portraits, the moguls of today live in a more self-consciously complex era.
At Ohne Titel yesterday morning, the designers Alexa Adams and Flora Gill showed a collection that seeks to flatter, above all else: the soft, dropped shoulder seams on knits show off pretty collarbones; the roomier skirts, like the one shown here, feature lines on the diagonal, which draw the eye in and against the outward curve of the hips.
Although van der Weyden did not adhere to the conventions of idealisation, he generally sought to flatter his sitters.
As Prime Minister, Tony Blair sought to flatter Nazarbayev in order to secure contracts for UK oil and gas firms.
Don't try to flatter him.
Don't try to flatter people in school/workplace.
But Mr. de Blasio, who had long courted Mr. Sharpton, attending his rallies and flattering him by soliciting his advice, now deployed his team to block Mr. Thompson's path, seeking to snatch the endorsement for himself.
In the memo, Mr. Kvaal also criticizes Mr. Perry's chief rival, Mitt Romney, who has not embraced a flat tax but has said he would seek to make the tax code simpler — and flatter — than it currently is.
The 16th-century Italian writer Pietro Aretino of whom it was said that he knew how to defame, to threaten, and to flatter better than all others was sought by both Charles V of Spain and Francis I of France.
