“Is it just me or does everybody find it easier to be gushingly honest with praise etc if the recipient is a relative stranger?”

“Someone might gushingly thank the family dog and their 100 closest friends, not much of a stretch in self-congratulatory Hollywood.”

“Elsewhere, a rhapsody about Roughgarden's own experience as an embryo turns gushingly cosmic.”

“The veracity of the events depicted in gushily romantic style by the author has not been disputed by Buckingham Palace.”