Excessive flattery

Usage examples of adulation.

It was moments like this, when their smiles and adulation fell on her, that Denise knew everything was worthwhile.

Whereupon the adulation reached fever pitch, the people screamed and shrieked with joy, every .

The boy stood beside the curule chair and looked down at the crowd, this his first experience of the extraordinary euphoria so many united people could generate, feeling the adulation brush his cheek because he stood so close to its source, and understanding what it must be like to be the First Man in Rome.

Wanted Wooton found as soon as possible so the adulation and horror could begin.

And another theory on Smith is he feeds on the female adulation in one part of his lifeand revels in it.

As the adulation showered upon Napoleon reaches a fevered pitch and spurs a movement to name him First Consul for Life with the right to name a successor, Josephine has misgivings.

Priests, not merely of the Thousand Temples but from every Cult, representing every Aspect of God, had clambered from the beaches or wound down from the hills to take their place in the Holy War, singing hymns, clashing cymbals, making the air bitter with incense and the noise of adulation.

Justinian himself, whose vanity was incapable of discerning how often that submission degenerated into the grossest adulation.

For the Kapok Kid, flippancy was a creed, derogation second nature: seriousness was a crime and anything that smacked of adulation bordered on blasphemy.

A guy on a beach lounger was made to get up and offer his seat to Boris, who took off his jogging outfit to reveal an inadequate bathing suit, and he reclined in the glow of adulation.

The applause went on and on as spotlights and laser beams danced across the long dais where Ruer Stross waved clenched fists over his head and savored the adulation.

What avails it then to a heart, simple and unvitiated as hers, to offer the bribe of riches, and to lavish the incense of flattery and adulation.

But wise Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts, decided it would be best that Harry not be raised amid the adulation he would surely receive in the wizarding world.

To a once-fading politician like Barnett, who had endured months of criticism and ridicule and even was booed at an Ole Miss football game two years back, this sudden, overwhelming adulation must have felt like heaven.

Mahayana was accompanied both by a tendency to regard the Buddha as a transcendent, rather than earthly, being and by adulation for the bodhisattva, or buddha-to-be, who would assist others on the path to buddhahood.