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«While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.»
«With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.»
Author: Bible
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flattering
«What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering»
«The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowingto the mob.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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flattering, kowtow, kowtowing, mob, the mob
«Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!»
«You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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