Am I, because I acknowledge all this, an 'adulator' of the present?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist] Reference

He was a Greenspan adulator, who believed he'd abolished the cycle and believed bubbles were impossible to recognise, or to burst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

If you can believe it, Obama adulator Andrew Sullivan recently suggested that the Barack Obama campaign is "far too cocky for its own good.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hubris Gets in the Way of Unity - Barack Forgets Hillary (Video)] Reference

A technocrat and intellectual hermit who read nothing after he began to write his own large works, Comte was the adulator of “science” as he understood it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

In other words, there's everything a Pee-wee's Playhouse adulator would wish, including a secret word which when mentioned gets audience-participation cheers and applause.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Finkle: First Nighter: The Pee-wee Herman Show , Elf and the Ubiquitous Inner Child] Reference

And so is Venezuela run daily, a web of contradictions managed by incompetent people, while the boss is away wasting precious money as long as any adulator is crossing his path.    From Wordnik.com.  [03/06/2005 - 03/13/2005] Reference

Her old adulator, also, vanished from public places, while her young admirer and his father hovered about in them as usual, but spiritless, comfortless, and as if in the same search as himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camilla] Reference

Virtue is of an unvarying and inflexible nature: it disdains as much to be the flatterer of mobs, as the adulator of Princes: yet how often must he, who rises so far above his equals, have stooped below them?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part I. 1792 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference

Now the virtue of friendship has a greater tendency to please than to displease: and so the quarrelsome man, who exceeds in giving displeasure sins more grievously than the adulator or flatterer, who exceeds in giving pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

If he do this with the mere intention of pleasing he is said to be "complaisant," according to the Philosopher (Ethic. iv, 6): whereas if he do it with the intention of making some gain out of it, he is called a "flatterer" or "adulator.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

Richard Cohen, former McCain adulator, eviscerates McCain over lies.    From Wordnik.com.  [AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth] Reference

Volkstem~ -- that Government adulator (~de regeering se vetsmeer document).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XXII] Reference

His advocate, his abettor, his adulator, with me only she was scrupulous and severe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna St. Ives] Reference

But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend that they always reason right about the means of promoting it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democracy in America — Volume 1] Reference

"Nobody who knows anything about it says that," he observed, as if he were stating an interesting axiomatic principle and without a trace of the leer of the adulator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Old for Dolls A Novel] Reference

He was a secret and taciturn man, and a pious adulator of his line has praised him for the success with which he dissembled his hatred of the Bonacolsi, while conspiring to sweep them and their dominion away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Journeys] Reference

Fortuna heroum? nerape arcubus atque triumphis Splendida, & expofitis pretiofa palatia fadis Pauper adulator fubit, imperiofa firequentat Uxor, fit ftrepitus, nodurnique otia fomni Turbantur mifere varii molimine luxus. 42 '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai Sur L'homme: Poëme Philosophique] Reference

Unhappily enough, his compliments were seldom as well taken as they were meant; and, whether from the ingratitude of the persons complimented or the ill fortune of the noble adulator, seemed sometimes to produce indignation in place of delight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Disowned — Complete] Reference

The people need a Fourth Estate, not yet another adulator of Barack Obama, yet another smearer of Sarah Palin, yet another patrician editor to keep out anything disagreeable to progressive sensibilities, yet another laptop-and-latte journalism-schooler to spit on everything pre-dating 1968.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Every feature of this mean adulator, seemed as if cast in the same mould with his haughty contemporary, whose proud unbending aspect, formed a striking contrast to the mild dispassionate countenance of Father Theobald; which, during the ceremony of calling over the names, of such as were to receive sentence, betrayed a degree of emotion not unnoticed by the Count.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Irish Guardian, or, Errors of Eccentricity] Reference

Vilis adulator picto jacet ebrius ostro.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Never had he been an adulator of Bull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celt and Saxon — Complete] Reference

Caecus adulator, dirusque a ponte satelles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus] Reference

He was the victim of an adulator of the people!.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution] Reference

Waller, the most specious flatterer of flattering courts -- the early worshipper of Charles the First -- the pusillanimous betrayer of his friends -- the adulator of Cromwell -- the wit and the jester of the second Charles -- the devotional whiner of the bigot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Buccaneer A Tale] Reference

The same system is pursued by all those who would arrive at, or remain in place and power: and what must be the consequence? that the straight-forward, honourable, upright man is rejected by the people, while the parasite, the adulator, the demagogue, who flatters their opinions, asserts their supremacy, and yields to their arbitrary demands, is the one selected by them for place and power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary in America, Series Two] Reference