- Look up
pukka in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pukka, an
adulatory slang adjective, may
refer to:
Pukka Orchestra, a
Canadian new wave band in the...
- more than
shared the government's
economic viewpoint – he
developed an
adulatory attitude towards Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. He made
himself amenable...
- of a
saint or an
ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an
adulatory and
idealized biography of a preacher, priest, founder, saint, monk, nun...
- He used
poetry as a
medium for
writing in prose."
Probably the most
adulatory judgment of
Browning by a
modern critic comes from
Harold Bloom: "Browning...
-
laboratory and
formative research.
Initial responses to the show
included adulatory reviews, some controversy, and high ratings. I've
always said of our original...
- Walpole, who made him a Lord of the
Treasury in 1724. He
addressed an
adulatory verse letter to
Walpole in 1726, in
which he
praised loyalty as the supreme...
- ingenuity ... the reviews, not surprisingly, were
without exception wildly adulatory.": 170–71
Christie included stereotyped descriptions of
characters in...
- no
place at court. This is
explicitly acknowledged in one of
several adulatory poems. By 1640, the
relationship between King
Charles and the Parliament...
-
genius and study, to
remain true to the
service of true art." In 1851 an
adulatory novel by the
teenaged Elizabeth Sara
Sheppard was published,
Charles Auchester...
- admirer, the
Russian "Harlequin", and what he
reveals about Kurtz in his
adulatory descriptions of him
raises questions about Kurtz's
actual beliefs and...
