“But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend that they always reason right about the means of promoting it.”

“I fear that Virgil was harmed by the Georgican success, and became more than ever an adulator of the ruling powers.”

“Is it just me or does anyone else find the spontaneous adulation and standing ovation before he's begun slightly embarrassing?”

“Shulamite was seemingly unfazed by such words of adulation from Solomon.”

“But the fact he also had real human frailties made him a greater man than was realised by those who could not see through the fog of adulation.”

“But while she cared little for his adulations, she did not because of them consider him a scoundrel, nor necessarily a hypocrite.”

“The Phnicians who surrounded the king lavished upon him adulations borrowed from paganism.”

“We have all smiled at the adulations of an ancient preface and the arrogance which too often baulked the poor writer's hopes.”