- Flattery, also
called adulation or blandishment, is the act of
giving excessive compliments,
generally for the
purpose of
ingratiating oneself with the...
-
trusts that "skilful and mature"
readers will
repudiate "Humbert's
blandishments",
picking up on Nabokov's ironies,
clues and "dead giveaway" style,...
- on a
sustained high B-flat. José's
insistence that,
despite Carmen's
blandishments, he must
return to duty
leads to a quarrel; the
arrival of Zuniga, 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...
- said Kaye sang "it with that
vaudeville rhythm and
those vaudeville blandishments that turn song
numbers into
triumphant occasions." He also pla**** the...
- with
untold numbers of blue-collar
workers responding to Wallace's
blandishments,
Negroes threatening to sit out the election,
liberals disaffected over...
- when he
found that the
split was inevitable, he did not suc****b to the
blandishments held out
before him by some
members of the Syndicate. On 26 June 1970...
-
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...
-
clappings of the hands, and gestures, and
gladness of countenance, and
blandishments".
Frederick was also
interested in the stars, and his
court was host...
