For a hundred grand, though, they got a lot more fawning over, than I was entitled to.
Despite the advantages of incumbency such as fawning state-controlled media the main challenger, Sarath Fonseka, might yet sneak home.
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Simply put, fawning over celebrities and their picturesque families may be just the sort of distraction people need.
The iPod turned five in October to a hallelujah chorus of fawning bloggers.
For example, the fawning adulation Jack Welch receives makes me more critical.
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The networks, of course, are all too happy to oblige with fawning coverage.
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Abdul is now a fawning admirer of his wife's work and accompanies her, sometimes with their school-going children in tow.
Rush Limbaugh is courted by political kings and queens and leads a fawning army of more than 13.5 million followers.
Ben Bernanke, judging from a fawning review of the book he wrote when it came out, certainly fell for it.
Lee will be signing autographs for fawning comic collectors and neo-Bard lovers alike at the 1821 Comics booth at NYCC.
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And yet there's a virtuosity throughout that suggests the same sure hand we recognize from his brilliant, if occasionally fawning, portraiture.
Just one more tip from the gurus of the gold rush: Flirting and fawning are fine, but don't discuss bank accounts.
Instead he has appeared as a fawning PR man, apparently willing to do or say just about anything to get elected.
She possesses the looks of the cyber vixen Lara Croft--which all but guarantees fawning press coverage--and the soul of a hired killer.
The articles were fawning chronicles of on-set visits, retrospectives of pioneering visionaries, and barely edited interviews with scream queens and fright-film directors.
How ironic to tell it to a crowd of fawning subjects, though.
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There's nothing wrong with that, and there's nothing wrong with NBC producers offering profiles, even fawning ones, of the hometown athletes.
One can picture these people lazing about in hotel robes, fawning over thread count quantities and proper lobby manner with equal zeal.
Fawning Tories have taken two sorts of lessons from Mr Blair's premiership.
The Clinton-Gore Administration has responded to this scam with characteristic fawning unctuousness.
They'll be the ones smiling on demand and putting up with your incessant fawning over the colors and lighting of seemingly mundane objects.
The retrospective included a fawning five-page interview with Defense Minister Ehud Barak who ordered the withdrawal during his tenure as prime minister and defense minister.
The last comes in handy because Winn quotes particularly fawning exchanges.
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The men were embarrassed by the public fawning over them as heroes, but they also raised a lot of money at a crucial time in the war.
One notably noxious moment in which a fawning Hitler sits an adorable little girl on his lap is juxtaposed with a Nazi soldier kicking a pregnant woman.
Esca is known for its fresh fish, particularly its crudo (Italian-style raw fish), and Pasternack was the subject of a fawning 2005 profile in The New Yorker.
All of which suggests that Mr Obama, who is running to the left of Mrs Clinton, has less to gain from fawning celebrities and potentially more to lose.
They became increasingly subordinated to the haggling, fawning, free food, free fuel, cash transfers and helpful cover-ups accorded by the U.S. to North Korea via the Six-Party Talks.
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