-
sense of
tchotchke as
meaning a
young girl, a "pretty
young thing". Less
flatteringly, the term
could be
construed as a more
dismissive synonym for "bimbo"...
-
traditionally Roman form of
rhetoric that set the
Gothic dynasty in a
flatteringly Roman light. Soon
after he was made king,
Vitiges had his predecessor...
-
compared with
Democracy in
America by
Alexis de Tocqueville, in how it
flatteringly explains a
nation to
itself from the
perspective of an outsider, as Voltaire's...
- that the rest of the film
approaches but doesn't
always match." Less
flatteringly, NPR's
Aisha Harris summarily dismissed the film's "flimsy premise" as...
-
Gerald of Wales,
usually unsympathetic to the Angevins,
wrote somewhat flatteringly of
Henry in
Topographia Hibernica as "our
Alexander of the West" who...
-
bigger and
brighter and
newer than ever.... Last night's
audience was
flatteringly unwilling to go home, and when the show
proper was over,
Jolson reappeared...
- "the
disaster in Afghanistan". The
Communist Party's People's
Daily flatteringly credited the Taliban's
victory to its
supposed adoption of Mao Zedong's...
- of the camera. She was just herself. That's what drew me to her." He
flatteringly said she was
similar to his
previous Happy End
leading lady, acclaimed...
- Earl of Rochester, real-life
Restoration rake,
courtier and poet, is
flatteringly portra**** in Etherege's The Man of Mode (1676) as a riotous, witty, intellectual...
- The
Hollywood Reporter judged the film to be derivative,
rather than
flatteringly imitative,
calling the film and its
genre "banal". List of
films featuring...
