Fulsome Sentence Examples

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  • The era of decadence, of honorary statues and fulsome inscriptions, began.

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  • A base on which stood a statue of Herodes' wife, Regilla, was found close to the facade, inscribed with fulsome praise, stating that the statue was "set up by order of the Sisyphaean Senate at the outpouring of the streams."

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  • His collected works, prefaced by a fulsome panegyric, in the course of which it is said that " he was a miracle of nature, and rather seemed to be the immediate production of God Almighty than born of a woman," were produced by his son-in-law, Thomas Wilson, in 1619.

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  • But the Bulgarians had skilfully exploited their primacy during the first war to induce the European press and public to regard Serbians and Greeks as mere satellites,' and, as is not unusually the case with successful propaganda, they had come to believe in it themselves, fortified in the belief by fulsome compliments addressing them as the "Prussians of the Balkans" and the "Japanese of the West."

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  • But the later recensions add little, beyond fulsome dedications to Earl Robert, to the edition of 1120.

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  • They invariably wished us well in very fulsome terms and in some cases they even said 'God Bless ' !

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  • That suspicion works better for me than theories about my hallucinating... Btw, I think " pretty mediocre " is too fulsome.

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  • Nonetheless, The Million Pound Property Experiment has been their Jamie's Kitchen, and their rehabilitation equally fulsome.

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  • The report begins with a fulsome tribute to Deputy Head Mr I G Hooke, who resigned in Aug 79.

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  • Doubtless in the poems of writers like Martial this deification was nothing but fulsome flattery, but in the case of the provincials it was a sincere tribute to the impersonation of the Roman Empire, as the administrator of good government and the peacemaker of the world.

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  • Demosthenes points out that such adulation is as futile as it is fulsome.

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  • The former was now mixed with Latin and classical expressions; much of the literature consists of fulsome panegyric, verses written on the marriages and funerals of nobles, with conceits and fantastic ideas, devoid of all taste, drawn from their coats of arms. The poets of this period are, as may be imagined, in most cases mere rhymesters; there are, however, a few whose names are worth recapitulating, such as Waclaw Potocki (c. 1622 - c. 1696), now known to have been the author of the Wojna Chocimska, or "War of Khotin," the same campaign which afterwards formed the subject of the epic of Krasicki.

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