Sentences with phrase «flattery on»

A younger man uses sexual pickup lines and flattery on an older woman.

A wrap dress (first created by Diane von Furstenburg) is commonly known for its flattery on any body type.

The new study goes beyond techniques to explore the effect of flattery on the workplace.

Not exact matches

And if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, plenty of companies — including some on these pages — are sincere flatterers of SRC.

Researchers from the Kellogg School of Management and the University of Michigan interviewed 42 executives at large U.S. companies and identified several flattery techniques the executives used successfully on their peers to secure board seats at other firms.

Nass and his students produced most of the research presented in the book because, when looking for studies on, say, the effectiveness of flattery, he discovered that some aspects of human interaction simply hadn't been explored.

Experiments on flattery, persuasion and the like could be made repeatable by using a computer as the flatterer or persuader.

«This combination — flattery plus direct talk — hasn't yet been tried on Trump,» Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum writes.

If you enjoyed this post, sharing it on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter with the links below is the highest form of flattery.

The cult has often been seen as little more than a gross form of flattery, motivated by the political ambitions of provincial elites, or the consequence of crude manipulation or megalomania on the part of emperors, the best of which, it is often remarked, were reticent about its development.

These here are Christ's own words: But it seems that so many don't think much about what they mean, because they rather seek to get their faces on the big screen, loving the flattery and cheering of the ungodly... They have their reward!

Consequently, many Westerners find, it difficult to recognize Islam on its own terms, and they mask that failure by a form of self - flattery and a unilateralism in which Islam is reduced to a sub-category of Christianity.

Being constantly reminded on the one hand of the infinite gap between one's own limited talents and vision and the perspective of Almighty God, and on the other of the radical equality with which God judges and loves the human race is a healthy counterweight to the flattery of the world and the smugness that comes with success.

The surrogates seek to slip up on the blind side of him by flattery.

I think that a pat on the back, one's name mentioned from the pulpit or some basic flattery is all many people need to make it through the year.

Learning to detect the forms of self - flattery which grant us immunity from accountability is a vital part of ethical and spiritual growth, as is learning to detect where our cynicism about the victim language of others is justified and where, half - muffled and scarcely articulate, there are real victims on whose behalf we must extend ourselves.

He argued doggedly against «democratism,» the idea that majorities are always right, because he believed that democracy was the characteristically modern form of political idolatry, based on a flattery of fallen human nature.

She dogs Jesus and his followers with her cries; she does not scruple to use Jewish flattery she has no right appropriating («Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me!»).

They built up an elaborate machinery of state despotism modeled on the old Persian monarchy with all its paraphernalia of an elaborate bureaucracy, court etiquette and ceremonial, fulsome flattery, and seclusion of the monarch.

Dortmund expected to be comfortably ensconced in second and challenging for major trophies, not second by the skin of their teeth and hanging on for dear life both domestically and in the Europa League, where their elimination of Atalanta verged on flattery.

The wealthy are prone to grand delusions brought on by environments of flattery, jealousy, and fear of scarcity.

In March 1986 Atwater drove west from Seattle toward Neah Bay and Cape Flattery, on the northwestern tip of Washington State, and started searching the beaches, tide marshes, and river estuaries for clues about whether the outer coast had risen or dropped.

After constantly showering you with praise and flattery, they'll ignore you for days on end and wait for you to react.

Great to see you enjoyed your Queensland holiday, your outfits looked very flattery, relaxed and cool, very important as its so hot and humid on Gold Coast and Brisbane.

I'm pregnant and have just been lurking on the few fashion blogs I read, like yours, for a little while, and unlike you, so many bloggers really are self - serious about «figure flattery» and stuff like that.

Quick reviews on each: The Nobility Dress has a beautiful lace sweetheart neckline, and I love the way the back of the skirt has pattern placement for ultimate flattery (yay tapered seam over the tush!).

We took our time with the fit, curving the waist seam just so for ultimate flattery, and using French seams on the inside, a sure sign of quality.

And third, even if you're going for a relatively traditional set of figure - flattery priorities, crop tops are great on a wide variety of figure shapes and sizes.

We'd like to think imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and Khloe Kardashian doing her own faux - blonde take on a traditionally African - American hairstyle is just that.

My thinking here is that if someone is on the fence about writing you back, the features (and flattery) of the VIP message might be just enough encouragement to get that reply.

There is probably no people on the earth that doesn't fall for flattery and your partner would be no different.

Many of them went through with it due to the excessive flattery, only to regret it later on.

Mirren, of course, also looked the part of an aging queen, dependent on young courtiers for poetic, often insincere flattery.

Not even the no - nonsense headmistress (Nicole Kidman) is completely immune to the flattery of their male charge; her wistful, lonely teacher (Kirsten Dunst) and the imperious oldest student (Elle Fanning) all fall under the sway of the charming soldier, who delights in the newfound upheaval in power dynamics and the passive - aggressive sniping on his behalf.

Now artist Tim Flattery has posted his art for the film, and you can see what Big Daddy might have looked like on the big screen.

She lends this film's incarnation of Reeves a life force just by standing up there on screen and demonstrating how one woman falls in love, succumbing to a combination of manly charm, little - boy - lost looks and sexual flattery.

For the type of audience that gets off on those Olympics puff pieces where the Chinese are portrayed as opportunistic monsters who sell their children to the national team, it's a special sort of Eurocentric auto - flattery.

We flatter teachers» professionalism by telling them they alone can best determine what will engage and enlighten the children before them, but the price of that flattery is that we make their jobs impossible to do effectively, forcing them to spend fruitless hours on Google and Pinterest hoping to find materials that a well - run and coherent system would provide to them — along with training on how to implement it effectively.

Slavish flattery aside, thanks for coming on to my blog and answering some questions about yourself, your process, and your literary journey.

A study published in the Journal of Marketing Research shows that even if customers know they're being flattered in order to be persuaded to buy something, the flattery still has a positive influence on their self - esteem and their shopping choices.

But enough flattery, because they'll be plenty more of that as this review goes on.

Yes, it does seem rather similar to a game series on another gaming platform, but they do say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Scott Watson reviews Urban Trial Playground on Nintendo Switch... They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and with Urban Trial Playground, Tate Multimedia nods heavily towards Red Lynx» Trials series in so many ways it's a surprise they've not called for their IP back!

All that would occupy her mind to the exclusion of better things, all that would involve her in the mazes of flattery and admiration, all that would tend to draw away her thoughts from others and fix them on herself, ought to be avoided as an evil to her, however brilliant or attractive it may be in itself.14

Like a mime who shadows us on a public street, these «copies» invoke the same uneasy mixture of amusement, anger, flattery, embarrassment, and insight.

Merely displaying these images might have seemed flattery if not for the fact that Prince's enlargements would go on to fetch as much a $ 90,000 at New York's Frieze art fair the next year — money that the Instagram photographers would never see.

In a 2010 New Criterion essay titled «My Jerry Saltz Problem,» James Panero wrote, «On Facebook and now elsewhere online, Saltz regularly mixes portentous metaphysical questions with internet messianism, unctuous flattery of his followers, treacly self - doubt, and gaseous emissions of political cant.

If «Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery», then everyone here on Climate Etc appreciates your sincerely imitative flattery Latimer Alder!

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Casetext was clearly on to something with its CARA brief - analysis software.

Media blogger Mark Tapscott says at Tapscott's Copy Desk that Bainbridge's format «could quite possibly be followed by a bunch of smart bloggers intent on directing the highest form of flattery in his direction.»