Sample Sentences for
adulation
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    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)
    adulation = admiration and praise
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    Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph.  (source)
    adulation = much admiration and praise
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    No flames consumed his body, and the demons roared his name in adulation.  (source)
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    Despite the adulation of the guys at school, he felt as if there was some kind of distance between him and the fellows.  (source)
    adulation = admiration and praise
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    But the people's good sense would hate the adulator who pretends that they always reason right about the means of promoting it.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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    I was still in love with her and now my adulation included everything she was that I no longer was:  (source)
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    But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend that they always reason right about the means of promoting it.†  (source)
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    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)
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    They're the objects of adulation and sympathy.  (source)
    adulation = much admiration and praise
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    But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend that they always REASON RIGHT about the MEANS of promoting it.†  (source)
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    Across the dying fire, Seth Clearwater - his eyes wide with adulation for the fraternity of tribal protectors - nodded his agreement.  (source)
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