flattery

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery – and now we have Arne Slot's Liverpool repeating the old Ferguson punishment as they relentlessly pursue victories and trophies.

Experts say flattery and agreement built into large language models can fuel such delusions.

As the public meeting neared an end, it looked like Lee's flattery had helped him avoid a Zelensky moment - the Ukrainian president's White House visit in February devolved into an angry spat.

But either way, she quickly responds to the flattery with a return compliment, an unpretentious, “Thanks, I made it,” and moves the conversation forward.

In a tongue-in-cheek column for the Sunday Standard in 1977, Abu poked fun at the culture of political flattery with a fictional account of a meeting of the "All India Sycophantic Society".