| But even if Dr Weed were a flatterer with a less bitter pill to swallow, there would still be a host of challenges blocking his health-care cure. |
| Reynolds was never a mere society painter or flatterer. |
| At the same time, he was by no means a flatterer, but ever plain-spoken to bluntness. |
| He was a blusterer, a flatterer and an arrogant bully who dumped his daughters in a convent. |
| He agreed with Pareto that universal suffrage promoted the corrupt and devious political skills of the flatterer, the wheeler-dealer, and the populist demagogue. |
| Yet perhaps he is only some false flatterer who is scorning us all the time. |
