Sentences with phrase «whose flattery»

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whose hunger welcomes a Goneril's flattery and spurns the candor of a Cordelia.»

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.

Plagued by contradiction in her own mind over flattery and the assumption that she would be far too plain in physical appearance to love, Dickinson was a huge talent whose work was widely underappreciated thanks to the inherent sexism of her time.