adulation

in a sentence

Adoor Basi, the most popular, best-loved comedian in Malayalam cinema, had just arrived (Bombay–Cochin). Burdened with a number of small unmanageable packages and unabashed public adulation, he felt obliged to perform.  (source) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1997

Across the dying fire, Seth Clearwater - his eyes wide with adulation for the fraternity of tribal protectors - nodded his agreement.  (source) Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse, 2007

The adulation that Trout was receiving, mindless and illiterate as it was, affected Trout like marijuana.  (source) Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969

More cheering, more adulation.  (source) Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants, 2007

But the people's good sense would hate the adulator who pretends that they always reason right about the means of promoting it.†  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers -- Modern English Edition 2, 2008

All professions of Dutch friendship for America were but "little adulations to procure a share of our trade," and now even they had vanished like a vapor, as had his own prior exuberance and admiration for the Dutch.†  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

Mr. Jarndyce had fallen into this company in the tenderness of his heart and his earnest desire to do all the good in his power; but that he felt it to be too often an unsatisfactory company, where benevolence took spasmodic forms, where charity was assumed as a regular uniform by loud professors and speculators in cheap notoriety, vehement in profession, restless and vain in action, servile in the last degree of meanness to the great, adulatory of one another, and intolerable to those who were anxious quietly to help the weak from failing rather than with a great deal of bluster and self-laudation to raise them up a little way when they were down, he plainly told us.†  (source) Charles Dickens, Bleak House, 1853

No flames consumed his body, and the demons roared his name in adulation.  (source) Henry H. Neff, The Fiend And The Forge, 2010

But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend that they always reason right about the means of promoting it.†  (source) Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy In America, Volume 1, 1835

But he had to deny himself, and choke down his desire, for such a recognition might cost more than it would come to: so he turned away his head, and left the two soiled lads to go on with their shoutings and glad adulations, unsuspicious of whom it was they were lavishing them upon.†  (source) Mark Twain, The Prince and The Pauper, 1881

I was still in love with her and now my adulation included everything she was that I no longer was:  (source) Alice Sebold, Lucky, 1999

But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend that they always REASON RIGHT about the MEANS of promoting it.†  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers, 1788

Despite the adulation of the guys at school, he felt as if there was some kind of distance between him and the fellows.  (source) Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War, 1974