| Another way that is just as effective as apple-polishing is flattery, giving someone high praise, telling him how good he looks, or how well he speaks, or how wise he is. |
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| Mr. Balanoff's testimony suggested he had mixed apple-polishing of Blago with tough love. |
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| He could thus clearly tolerate a few television reporters' apple-polishing queries: Any disappointments so far? |
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| A little apple-polishing is understandable for a reporter whose day job depends upon access. |
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| So now, in debates, he is doomed to be Annoying Boy, apple-polishing and doing that smug-mugging. |
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| And when a bunch of politicians and so-called academicians held such seminars praising the PM, you know that apple-polishing has gone to the extreme. |
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| Now the apple-polishing George Tenet is gone. |
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| The apple-polishing included telling Blago that his off-the-wall notion about exiting office to run a union-sponsored, tax-exempt nonprofit to lobby on health care was a good one. |
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