fawning
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It is an unusually nuanced take on a subject that too often generates reflexive fulminating or fawning, and a truly auspicious start to the New Museum’s new chapter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
The first hour-and-forty-five minutes should have just featured the effusive fawning praise from Cabinet members and self-congratulations parading as insight from Donny.
From Salon • Aug. 29, 2025
"All I could see on the surface was all these people fawning over him. It was extremely humiliating and embarrassing."
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2025
Saint-Simon knew that when kings embrace their own flattery, they open themselves to manipulation, and the writer viewed Louis XIV as an illusory absolutist who was in fact controlled by fawning scoundrels.
From Slate • May 30, 2025
He was more fawning and would-be friendly; but Sam surprised some strange looks in his eyes at times, especially towards Frodo; and he went back more and more into his old manner of speaking.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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