fawning
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But The Hollywood Reporter describes the film as "pretty polished and as featherweight as a fawning magazine puff piece".
From BBC • May 1, 2026
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
The term carries an intensely pejorative connotation in the group and speaks to the imbalance of power between the singer and his fawning entourage.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025
“It’s not like that. Do you think I wanted them fawning all over me like that? C’mon, you know me better.”
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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