Although a person of strong faith herself, her research was critical, and not adulatory.

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Adulatory quotations by distinguished writers on her book's jacket attest to her formidable reputation.

ECONOMIST: Literary memoirs

Just read the adulatory reviews whenever Cate Blanchett takes a Sydney Theatre Company production to New York or Washington, or when Peter Carey publishes a new novel.

BBC: Australia: The Consequential Country

His supporters mused about what might come next for "the Enforcer, " "the Crusader, " "the Sheriff of Wall Street, " as he has been dubbed in adulatory news stories.

FORBES: Witch Hunt

The sight of such unusually open dispute encouraged an outburst of enthusiasm from a public that had grown inured, under Mr Ahmadinejad, to a bland, adulatory media diet.

ECONOMIST: Iran's election

After his good showing in New Hampshire, the more the voters saw of John McCain, the less they liked him, in spite of an ever-adulatory press (unfortunately including The Economist).

ECONOMIST: Letters

In the weeks before, the Dubai-based, Saudi-owned station had run a series of adulatory interviews with Iyad Allawi, Iraq's interim prime minister, as well as saturation advertising to get out the vote.

ECONOMIST: The Arab neighbours

Most of the music was unfamiliar to North Koreans, who would never have been to a performance that did not include some adulatory reference to the Workers' Party, its founder Kim Il Sung and his son and successor as supreme leader, Kim Jong Il.

ECONOMIST: Cultural diplomacy