flattery

With a mix of flattery and blind optimism, Seoul succeeded in setting up a first-ever meeting between a sitting US president and Kim Jong Un in 2018.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Graham was, rhetorically, almost pathetically in Trump’s thrall, heaping flattery onto a president who’d once posted Graham’s phone number online for mass harassment.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

Summit attendees were torn on whether the flattery that European leaders lavished the U.S. president with was genuine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

But Rutte countered with a mix of flattery and countervailing facts that has thus far kept Trump engaged.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

“Careful,” she says with the faintest of grins, “false flattery might make me lose my grip, and then where would you be?”

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

But I learned as little about Herman from these flatteries as I did from Einhorn’s gushing cliches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2021

No "star" could have been less spoilt by the flatteries of success or by those wonderful receptions he receives night after night.

From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Henry A. Lytton

There are flatteries and intrusions beside which censure is sweet and obloquy would be welcome.

From Critical Studies by Ouida

Thereupon several young men approached her and favored her with an assortment of the insipid, commonplace flatteries of which such a prodigious supply is ordinarily consumed in fashionable salons.

From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock

I renounced my desires once for all, my hopes, the enjoyments of love and the flatteries of self-love.

From The Joy of Captain Ribot by Armando Palacio Vald?s