Few other gadgets in the last decade have inspired as much adulation as the iPod. |
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Some of the time the crowd drown him out completely, and he stalks the stage revelling in the adulation. |
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Their work catapulted them to the world centrestage, where they were surrounded by adulation and enmity at the same time. |
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I mean on the one hand I'm sure he loves the glory, and he has to have this public adulation. |
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But he has been there before, and is well aware of the fleeting nature of public adulation. |
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If your career is on the way down, panto is a celebrity safety net, one last greasepaint refuge where you can still revel in audience adulation. |
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The type of flattery that has reached dangerous proportions today is the absurd adulation and lionization of movie stars and other celebrities. |
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Though she was happy with the love and adulation that came with fame, she hated waking up early in the morning. |
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The two principals whipped up tremendous whoops and roars from a besotted audience, and in many respects the adulation was well deserved. |
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During the postwar folk music revival, rural musicians faced a similar mixture of adulation and condescension. |
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Endless tributes, adulation and back rubs from his closest allies tend to obscure the truth. |
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This year, he received a strong response from his fans, but nothing like the rain of adulation he generated last year. |
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Such profuse adulation of the rich exists side-by-side with occasional media trashing of individuals as overly piggish or personally flawed. |
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Just which job is it that pays a fortune and showers its practitioners with honours and adulation to a great age? |
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From being unsure about himself to coping with adulation, Sproule has raced forward in these last few weeks. |
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Neither, although his comics have brought him a certain degree of wide-eyed adulation, is he any kind of superhero. |
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He was not the sort of person who played to the gallery and loved the adulation of the crowd. |
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Yet if the Welsh recover from their shaky start, it will be another manager who will be receiving the glory and adulation of a nation. |
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Women get all in a pet that Sorenstam doesn't receive the adulation Tiger Woods does. |
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I have seen her tame a noisy rock audience into a state of appreciative adulation. |
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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. |
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Collins took off on his lap of honour, deserving adulation for his run of 9.98 secs. |
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That is the only small price he has to pay for his unmatched adulation and unparalleled adoration from his countryman. |
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There will be no trophy or congratulation, no hyperventilation or applause or adulation. |
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Is it just me or does anyone else find the spontaneous adulation and standing ovation before he's begun slightly embarrassing? |
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Musically this piece exists to excite gasps of admiration, if not downright adulation from the audience. |
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The name alone is enough to strike fearsome loathing in some and unmitigated adulation in others. |
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He was not the sort of prince who adored flattery and adulation, public appearances and such. |
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Wendy believes all the adulation turned Peter 's head, sowing the seeds of overweening self-esteem. |
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There are few people in this world who deserve any or all of the adulation they receive. |
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Visitors get a chance to become stand-up stars basking in the adulation of an adoring public, at least for the duration of a few jokes. |
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Yet the adulation of the rich and famous is surely as fulsome as ever. |
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As far as teenybopper adulation was concerned The Beatles were happy to shift the burden on to younger shoulders. |
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Instead, the multi-millionaire enjoys the unfettered licence of an owner and, as a local princeling, the adulation of fans stupid enough to believe in his undying loyalty. |
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His skills have brought him adulation and riches beyond belief. |
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I get a lot of appreciation and adulation for the kind of music I create. |
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Years of unimaginable success, glory and adulation were to follow. |
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As he began his fifth and final year as Peru's president, Mr Toledo had been enjoying a welcome wavelet of adulation. |
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But for non-veterans — including about four-fifths of all members of Congress — there is only unequivocal, unhesitating adulation. |
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But surely he must miss the thrill of playing, the adulation of his fans and the cut and thrust of battle? |
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For most modern prime ministers, such adulation lasts for only a brief honeymoon period, usually after they are first elected. |
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On her tour of Europe last month, she was swaddled in praise verging on adulation. |
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After the five-star critical adulation that greeted Mike Leigh's new film in Cannes, prospects for Mr Turner always looked strong. |
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Kim Il Sung founded the country and, despite often horrendous policies, enjoyed the adulation of the population. |
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In a fit of adulation I tell Sir John how much I enjoyed his work. |
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He received adulation and extraordinary benefits from the city he represented in the games. |
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Gradually the honor and respect given to the Bishop of Rome grew, and these bishops in turn desired this adulation from bis hops of other cities. |
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The difference is that I want mass adulation on the back of people having to think. |
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Possibly affected by the adulation, he became more surly and confused. |
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Not that one grudges the great player any of that adulation. |
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The nature of adulation does not distort his impression of reality. |
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Before NYC Prep, reality TV stars were sources of entertainment, but never objects of envy or adulation. |
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Lafayette, more interested in his own nationwide tour of adulation, declined. |
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Apollo misses the adulation of believers, and wants to fill a new planet with humans who will worship him. |
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What intrigued me about Florida's current publicity tour is the uncritical adulation his ideas seem to be receiving in much of the Australian media. |
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Such benefits, in tandem with fame and adulation that bordered on worship, unsurprisingly fuelled the desire to win at all costs and athletes were not above cheating to do so. |
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The responses of writers and scholars to his work have varied, journalists tending towards praise and even adulation, academic linguists towards caution and even reproof. |
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All basked for precious moments in the attention and adulation. |
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Even though he often bemoaned the troubles that he had transforming these talks into a book, he relished the adulation and new friendships. |
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Michael Gove's adulation for Tory Peer Lord Harris and his academies reminded me of the time I asked Sir Cyril Taylor, then the government's top cheerleader for privatised schools, what Harris's contribution was. |
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Yet there is a uncomfortable dissonance between Mr Buffett's claims to have created a firm that will outlast him and the adulation that will be on full display in Omaha, Nebraska, this weekend. |
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In the 19th century, critical admiration for Shakespeare's genius often bordered on adulation. |
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Olivier was tiring of Leigh's suffocating adulation, and she was drinking to excess. |
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The enterprise was now feted as a triumph by the public and Thomson enjoyed a large share of the adulation. |
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After his record swim, Captain Webb basked in national and international adulation, and followed a career as a professional swimmer. |
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I wonder how many of today's sublebrities will ever achieve that degree of longterm adulation? |
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Speroni himself is still struggling to comprehend the level of adulation. |
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The audience was not yet done showering Simons with adulation. |
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And tonight, despite all the pomp, praise and adulation this side project has received, it's clear that Turner is still the star – the man the leering, bleary-eyed crowd are here to deify. |
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This is a man for whom expressions of popular support and public adulation are headily empowering. |
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Now he's a worldbeater, it's not surprising that he says he finds the new adulation of fans hard to handle. |
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He readily basked in the adulation of Europhile fanatics in this House. |
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The adulation of the crowd is always a blood sport, not a pretty sight. |
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This harsh critical assessment, which tried to reduce him to the status of a mere hearthside rhymer, was perhaps as unbalanced as the adulation he had received during his lifetime. |
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We must stop wishful thinking and false adulation about women being caregivers and sweet madonnas, especially when it comes to assigning custody for children. |
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What is most important, though, is to investigate the causes of the sympathy for the Taliban and of the continuing adulation of them as freedom fighters over wide areas of the country. |
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Martínez enjoyed adulation from Wigan fans during his playing career and sources at Swansea believe that would be his most likely destination if he were to leave. |
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It is all vaguely reminiscent of the good old days in the USSR when artistic merit was measured by an artist's promotion of the values of the unitary state, by his adulation of the government's achievements. |
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Two years after their UEFA EURO 2008 triumph, Spain were once again receiving the adulation of throngs of delirious supporters who gathered in Madrid to greet their victorious FIFA World Cup homecoming heroes. |
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After all, the former smacks of flunkeyism, the latter sentimental adulation. |
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The adulation and flag-waving frenzy is reminiscent of early Blair-steria. |
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Reject adulation, for it is a weapon that destroys your noble sentiments. |
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Shame on any Member who proclaims such obscene adulation of men of blood! |
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As their popularity spread, a frenzied adulation of the group took hold. |
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But how could she have helped herself? I asked, imagining the sneers and the laughter, the adulation of the toadies, the scepticism of the professional poet. |
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His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy. |
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