Am I, because I acknowledge all this, an 'adulator' of the present? ❋ Louisproyect (2010)
In other words, there's everything a Pee-wee's Playhouse adulator would wish, including a secret word which when mentioned gets audience-participation cheers and applause. ❋ David Finkle (2010)
He was a Greenspan adulator, who believed he'd abolished the cycle and believed bubbles were impossible to recognise, or to burst. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Her old adulator, also, vanished from public places, while her young admirer and his father hovered about in them as usual, but spiritless, comfortless, and as if in the same search as himself. ❋ Unknown (2008)
If you can believe it, Obama adulator Andrew Sullivan recently suggested that the Barack Obama campaign is "far too cocky for its own good." ❋ Unknown (2008)
And so is Venezuela run daily, a web of contradictions managed by incompetent people, while the boss is away wasting precious money as long as any adulator is crossing his path. ❋ Unknown (2005)
A technocrat and intellectual hermit who read nothing after he began to write his own large works, Comte was the adulator of “science” as he understood it. ❋ WALTER SIMON (1968)
His enormous income has been exhausted to the ultimate farthing, and at latest accounts he had quit the city, leaving behind him, it is shrewdly suspected, a large hotel bill, though no such admission can be extorted from his last landlord, who is evidently a sycophantic adulator of ❋ Various (N/A)
Virtue is of an unvarying and inflexible nature: it disdains as much to be the flatterer of mobs, as the adulator of Princes: yet how often must he, who rises so far above his equals, have stooped below them? ❋ An English Lady (N/A)
If he do this with the mere intention of pleasing he is said to be "complaisant," according to the Philosopher (Ethic. iv, 6): whereas if he do it with the intention of making some gain out of it, he is called a "flatterer" or "adulator." ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
Now the virtue of friendship has a greater tendency to please than to displease: and so the quarrelsome man, who exceeds in giving displeasure sins more grievously than the adulator or flatterer, who exceeds in giving pleasure. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
"Nobody who knows anything about it says that," he observed, as if he were stating an interesting axiomatic principle and without a trace of the leer of the adulator. ❋ Unknown (1926)
Volkstem~ -- that Government adulator (~de regeering se vetsmeer document). ❋ Solomon Tshekisho (1916)
He lied, like the brazen, self-seeking adulator that he was, and for which he should have been soundly whipped. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
He was a secret and taciturn man, and a pious adulator of his line has praised him for the success with which he dissembled his hatred of the Bonacolsi, while conspiring to sweep them and their dominion away. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend that they always reason right about the means of promoting it. ❋ Unknown (1838)
Few young actors had received greater adulation than did [Marlon Brando] after his performance in [wordA] [Streetcar] Named Desire/word. ❋ LarstaiT (2003)
It was so embarrassing when all you could hear was the [soloist's] [aria] and John's premature adulation in the [auditorium]. ❋ Gryfin (2011)
The [self adulation] paradox really gets the ecclesiastic control freaks [in a snit].
It is possible to: "WWJD"
It isn't at all possible to: "I am the fucking [second coming of Christ], do as I command" (For reasons beyond such psychological mutation being nothing more than "Caa-rack Nigga" reasoning). ❋ Nefarious Aflatus (2008)
Those [Trump supporters] shouted me down when I tried to point out one of Trump's lies. They're suffering from serious Trump [Adulation] Disorder ([TAD]). ❋ Wright Ryder (2020)
I suffered an [acute] case of premature adulation when I told my friends I [submitted] a word [to Urban] Dictionary...then was rejected. ❋ MJAlbus (2014)
"They were [getting] [intense] adulation by the [minute]." ❋ Penut_sandwish (2023)
