Sentences with phrase «just flattery»

Or maybe it's just that flattery is the sincerest form of flat - earthery.

This was not just flattery.

You have to have the willingness to confront in order to make honour valuable, otherwise it's just flattery.

Not exact matches

Men and women should arrive and depart together and without flourish or flattery — just some small banter.

just so we all know, i'm sure some may know already — i'm not racist... but apparently the dude stealing my handle is... kinda takes away from the lovely compliment of him using me to imitate... i guess i have a need to rid myself of this flattery, or let is shame me further... oh the shame!

Kids see through flattery and false praise just like adults do - and it usually backfires.

If you find that your four - year - old is trying to weasel her way out of trouble by negotiating with you, telling lies, or even winning you over with flattery, she probably is just trying to avoid the consequences or is attempting to gain some power over you.

Imitation isn't just the sincerest form of flattery — a $ 10,000 game has shown it can be a smarter survival strategy than innovation

Instead, I try to frame things in terms of a style goal (just as you discuss a figure flattery goal here).

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.

For some figure flattery is paramount, for others «just flattering enough» is the desired effect.

And I don't just mean for those of you who define your own figure flattery priorities and chuck the traditional ones because they don't suit your tastes and needs.

Hollywood's best dressed moms show us just how imitation can be the sincerest and sweetest form of flattery.

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.

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.

Daniel is sincere in his flattery, even if an extended monologue of what he would do to her if they got up and left a coffee shop together turns into something out of a cheap romance novel (i.e., long passages of time spent just exploring her body).

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.

Remember that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and if you came here to learn to be a better investor, why not learn from someone who has actually walked the walk instead of just talking the talk?

This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog.»

This praise which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes is but a just tribute to the memory of Boatswain, a dog who was born at Newfoundland, May 1803, and died at Newstead Abbey, November 18, 1808.

We will be crossing over magnificent rivers and waterfalls, Cooktown, Bloomfield, the silica sands of Cape Flattery (just like Whitehaven in the Whitsundays) the lower sections of Cape York Peninsular and more.

Anthony could, however, just remind himself that imitation is sometimes regarded as the sincerest form of flattery

Imitation is the best kind of flattery of course... just not when it comes to scams.

In this case, imitation isn't just the sincerest form of flattery, it's a desired outcome.

Just don't overdo the flattery.

While imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, this resume writer apparently thought they were just proofreading rather than revamping towards freelance projects.

In other words, flattery is often just used to get something you want from the person you are flattering.