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much admiration and praise- Don't grow dependent upon popular adulation. It comes and goes and reverses unexpectedly.
adulation = much admiration and praise
- ...waves and waves of adulation wash his pain away.Michael J. Farrand -- Gibson's 1988 Home Run
- He had bought for himself out of all the wealth streaming through his fingers neither adulation nor love, neither splendour nor comfort.Conrad, Joseph -- Chance
- No flames consumed his body, and the demons roared his name in adulation.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- Ender had won something better than the adulation of the passengers.Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
- They're the objects of adulation and sympathy.Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture
- The adulation that Trout was receiving, mindless and illiterate as it was, affected Trout like marijuana.Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
- More cheering, more adulation.Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
- Across the dying fire, Seth Clearwater - his eyes wide with adulation for the fraternity of tribal protectors - nodded his agreement.Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
- I was still in love with her and now my adulation included everything she was that I no longer was:Alice Sebold -- Lucky
- And so, well knowing that this woman, trained as she had been, deserved praise, even adulation, I was yet not able to utter it, trained as I had been.Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Despite the adulation of the guys at school, he felt as if there was some kind of distance between him and the fellows.Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War
- "Yessuh, Mr. Morgan," Bigger said; his eyes filled with mock adulation and respect.Richard Wright -- Native Son
- 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.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- 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.George Orwell -- 1984
- Adulation, being new in any form, pleased her.Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
- The adulation of salaaming courtiers came to be sweet music to his ears.Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
- But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend that they always REASON RIGHT about the MEANS of promoting it.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
- But the people's good sense would hate the adulator who pretends that they always reason right about the means of promoting it.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
- John Kennedy has the adulation of the crowds all to himself.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
adulation = much admiration and praise
adulation = admiration and praise
adulation = much admiration and praise
adulation = much admiration and praise
adulation = admiration and praise
adulation = much admiration and praise
adulation = admiration and praise
adulation = much admiration and praise
adulation = admiration and praise
adulation = much admiration
adulation = admiration and praise
adulation = much admiration and praise