- Flattery, also
called adulation or blandishment, is the act of
giving excessive compliments,
generally for the
purpose of
ingratiating oneself with the...
-
clappings of the hands, and gestures, and
gladness of countenance, and
blandishments."[full
citation needed] A few
centuries after Frederick II's alleged...
- said Kaye sang "it with that
vaudeville rhythm and
those vaudeville blandishments that turn song
numbers into
triumphant occasions." He also pla**** the...
- mind game. [It is]
built with the
minutiae of a
Swiss watch",
without blandishments. The
linear plot "is made
infinitely complex by the
portrayal of this...
- dearly. He
falls victim to the
splinters of the troll-mirror and the
blandishments of the Snow Queen. The Snow
Queen (Snedronningen), the
queen of the...
- "respectably dressed, if a bit rumpled"
Rothbard was "immune to the
blandishments of
sixties youth culture".
During this time,
Rothbard proposed that...
- from him
towards the
throne are his daughters, who
sought by
their blandishments to
seduce Gautama from his purpose. On his
other side, i.e., in the...
-
takes the "King's shilling",
joining the 33rd Foot, as a
result of the
blandishments of
recruiting sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill. The
regiment is
first sent...
-
trusts that "skilful and mature"
readers will
repudiate "Humbert's
blandishments",
picking up on Nabokov's ironies,
clues and "dead giveaway" style,...
- that few of 'our'
major intellectual and
cultural figures resisted the
blandishments of the CIA". He
added that some of the
information in the book is not...
