How To Use Fulsome In A Sentence
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Unless the context is made very clear, the reader or hearer cannot be sure whether such an expression as ‘fulsome praise’ is meant in the sense ‘generous in amount, extent’ or in the sense Perry suggests.
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But there can seldom have been more fulsome affair than the $275 a head extravaganza last week to celebrate John Howard's 30 years in parliament.
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Even so, Keegan has been effusive and fulsome in his praise of Pearce's contribution both on and off the field.
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And in Congress politics, fulsome flattery and obsequious loyalty play a vital role.
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While I did not begrudge the President his due recognition, this was a trifle fulsome.
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The international adjudicating panel was impressed by students and external partners who were as one in their fulsome praise of the Institute.
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gave him a fulsome introduction
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Interested and sympathetic - to the police, I mean - without being uncritically fulsome, in that way Tory politicians have.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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I was feeling exhausted, what with the 22 miler, the Rowing Crew Mardi Gras and the fulsome lunch that was now rattling in my stomach and telling my brain to let me lie down in the aisle somewhere near the dairy produce and have a good snooze.
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Holocaust survivor and winner of many literary awards and lauded in fulsome tones
40 entries from September 2007
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It would be reasonable for him to make a fulsome apology.
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Did I approve of this fulsome enactment of the cliche Nil nisi bonum de mortuis est?
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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In Marshallese, the language of Bikini Atoll, hello and bye alike are conveyed in the word kwe, which also means love.i In English, the expression bye was once similarly fulsome: God be with you.
The English Is Coming!
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Fundraising for the new organ, which came from Scotland, was organised by Rainsford and he was fulsome in his appreciation of all the generous donors.
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V. i.112 (241,5) [as fat and fulsome] [W: flat] _Fat_ means _dull_; so we say a _fatheaded_ fellow; _fat_ likewise means _gross_, and is sometimes used for _obscene_; and _fat_ is more congruent to _fulsome_ than _flat_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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Did I approve of this fulsome enactment of the cliche Nil nisi bonum de mortuis est?
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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This florid and fulsome eulogy was written by that singular being who could thus flatter, and almost apotheosize, the inventor in public, while in secret he was doing everything to thwart him, and who never, as long as he lived, ceased to antagonize him, and later accused him of having claimed the credit of an invention all the essentials of which were invented by others.
Letters and Journals 02]
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But all war is ugly, a fulsome horror that, someday, as with gladiatorial contests, we will look back at in appalled disbelief: we did that?
Megalomania and war, from Cannae to Iraq
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The discussion is much enhanced by fulsome detail with respect to the politics of building a new program from the ground up and the particular problems of implementing a general mission statement.
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He was fulsome in his praise of the Prime Minister.
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He was too fulsome in his praise.
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Never refer to a fulsome bosom unless you want to get slugged by an intelligent woman.
No Uncertain Terms
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Dioscor. wonders the physicians of his time made no more use of it, because it rarefies and cleanseth: we use it to this purpose in our ordinary beer, which before was thick and fulsome.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The audience on opening night with fulsome in their appreciation of yet another very fine production by Waterford Dramatic Society.
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Turks of all sorts, men and women, and all over Greece, and those hot countries; to absterge belike that fulsomeness of sweat, to which they are there subject.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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MRS BELLINGHAM: He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs and alleged profound pity for my frostbound coachman Palmer while in the same breath he expressed himself as envious of his earflaps and fleecy sheepskins and of his fortunate proximity to my person, when standing behind my chair wearing my livery and the armorial bearings of the Bellingham escutcheon garnished sable,
Ulysses
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From her, it seemed perfectly proper, and not even fulsome, just a nice compliment.
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He lived to know that the fulsome adulation of the pitiable bishops whom he had consecrated to serve his own ends could not drown one howl of the conscience which he had transformed into a bandog within him.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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MRS BELLINGHAM: He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs and alleged profound pity for my frostbound coachman Palmer while in the same breath he expressed himself as envious of his earflaps and fleecy sheepskins and of his fortunate proximity to my person, when standing behind my chair wearing my livery and the armorial bearings of the
Ulysses
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Her advice includes perfectly true but rather fulsome pearls of wisdom.
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One of those two points, the narrow yet yawning gap that separated the teams at the end, was scored by centre-forward Brian O'Meara, and he too paid fulsome tribute to the valiant vanquished.
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Intended as a fulsome accolade, it was recognized as such by all around.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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Critics in Britain appear to be having an ongoing contest to see who can offer this writer the most lavishly fulsome praise.
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After we had had a chance to have good and fulsome discussions on it, we came to mutual agreement that it would be appropriate for me to leave at this time.
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Others just want praise: the more enthusiastic and fulsome, the better.
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He brags, moreover, that he was primus medicorum, and did more famous cures than all the physicians in Europe besides, [4166] a drop of his preparations should go farther than a dram, or ounce of theirs, those loathsome and fulsome filthy potions, heteroclitical pills (so he calls them), horse medicines, ad quoram aspectum Cyclops Polyphemus exhorresceret.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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He even edited for publication the lectures of his professor, one Isaac Barton, and accepted a fulsome paragraph of praise in the printed version, without disclosing to the author that the whole foundation of the work was mistaken.
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The comparisons are obvious - and Duffy is fulsome in his praise for the Stones - but there's an important difference: while the Stones continue to make new music, who's actually interested in hearing it?
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For all that, though, there is something rather strained and artificial about the fulsome praise of America that one gets from O'Keeffe and many other defenders of American liberal democracy.
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Whichever approach reviewers of Suite Française took — whether they followed the ‘lost book by dead writer’ angle, or played the French guilt card — they all used the limited space left after biography to indulge in fulsome but often strangely detached praise.
Book Reviewing
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If rip-roaring eighteenth century epics are your thing, you will probably love this book, stuffed as it is with salty character and fulsome event.
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The least satisfactory aspect of the book is that which has received the most fulsome praise from certain critics.
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The rhetoric wasn't new, but the response from the audience was unequivocal, with even the wavering Frank Fahey, and the chain smoking Martin Cullen, fulsome in their support.
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Please please please understand that if I cause any offence to anybody, at all, anywhere, I apologise fulsomely and unreservedly.
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Following a telephone discussion with US President Bush the same day, Clark was pleased to report his ‘very, very fulsome appreciation’ of her government's support.
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Encouraged by success, he went to Rome, collected rich patrons, and with fulsome flattery won, but failed to keep, the favour of the tyrant Domitian.
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If the compliment seems fulsome, it must be remembered that Meres has higher praise and more of it for Shakespeare's fellow Warwickshireman, Michael Drayton.
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And sons and daughters of his flesh and of the law needs must go with him fulsomely eating out of the gnarled old hand that had half a million to disburse.
LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES
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Nor was Steve Cotterill fulsome in his support of the referee's actions, saying: ‘The referee has made a decision in the best interests of all the players and we can't really argue with that.’
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King's lack of fulsome appreciation for McQuesten's accomplishments indicates the tepid relationship between the two men.
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The word fulsome is itself becoming incomprehensible.
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And, of course, the movie is loaded with details, from the fulsome costumes to the full-scale ships and even to the eventual CGI pirate-into-ghost-pirate transitions.
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The ultimate essence of the consubstantial trend to the modern communication design is the fulsome functionalism, rationalism.
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She told him, when he became fulsome, that she didn't want thanks from him, and it was true.
THE HELLBOUND HEART
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Meeting in semisecrecy in the Jesuit novitiate on Rue de Pot de Fer Saint-Sulpice, the brethren of the Nine Sisters gathered to praise Jones in the most fulsome fashion.
John Paul Jones
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Rebecca glares at the bugle sitting on the sill, the dark uncurtained window, the fulsome moon, Marylebone.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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“He came to us in fulsome state and told us of thee a thing which Heaven forfend; and the slave added a lie which it befitteth not to repeat, Allah preserve thy youth and sound sense and tongue of eloquence, and forbid to come from thee aught of offense!”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Nay, Mr Urquhart,' said Dalziel with a fulsome orotundity, `I'd be real sorry to think I'd left you in any doubt about that.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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Newspapers have been fulsome in their praise of the former president.
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Her new book has received fulsome praise from the critics.
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Her bee-stung lips and deep-swimming-pool eyes have been the subject of many a fulsome tribute from fans.
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To that extent, if there are costs incurred by the marshal in meeting that they are the subject of a fulsome undertaking by a person within the jurisdiction.
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‘His Eternity!’ exclaimed Chrysostom, on whom, unaccustomed to the fulsomeness of Byzantine Courts, the title jarred like a blasphemy.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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Newspapers have been fulsome in their praise of the former president.
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V. i.112 (241,5) [as fat and fulsome] [W: flat] _Fat_ means _dull_; so we say a _fatheaded_ fellow; _fat_ likewise means _gross_, and is sometimes used for _obscene_; and _fat_ is more congruent to _fulsome_ than _flat_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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Politianus had a tetter in his nose continually running, fulsome in company, yet no man so eloquent and pleasing in his works.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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If the fulsome apologies coming from the Labour leadership are for excessive force used upon an elderly man then apologies are right and proper.
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Yet the adulation of the rich and famous is surely as fulsome as ever.
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Strategies vary from innovative bottle design and unusual ingredients through to fulsome use of celebrity endorsement.
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There is simply no other source with such fulsome detail about the Guid Neighbours, although writings on the second sight are far more plentiful.
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Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.
