About the 4th century BCE, the paean became merely a formula of adulation ; its object was either to implore protection against disease and misfortune, or to offer thanks after such protection had been rendered.

Despite the cheers and adulation of most of his fans, the occasional boos directed at him in Fenway Park led Williams to stop tipping his cap in acknowledgement after a home run.

The Turbo Terrific, despite its name and Peter's adulation, is highly unreliable ; it often falls to pieces in the middle of a race, usually after Peter praises it for how well it is doing.

He received the adulation of the public and the press after the Sino-French War, when France's victory added Tonkin to its colonial empire.

" Shamrock was also treated with a lot of adulation from the fans after the fight was over as if he was the winner, cheering him as he left the octagon with his arms raised.

After wild scenes at the Townsville airport before and after the victory over the Canterbury Bulldogs, the Cowboys played at home against the Broncos amid scenes of hysteria and adulation never before experienced as the region fully supported their team.

When Jenkins ' love and concern for her remained unaffected despite her treatment of him, Songbird finally explained to him that after repeatedly losing the things and people she most cared about, including Angar and the public adulation she had enjoyed before the Thunderbolts were exposed as villains, she had developed a fear of abandonment and felt that the only way she could cope would be to not care about anything or anybody that might abandon her, including Jenkins.

Bache's harangues increased after anti-federalists charged Washington with being too ready to accept public adulation.

After Stalin's death, Stalin's cult of personality was denounced at the 1956 Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, North Korean state authorities ended overt adulation of the Soviet leader.

He was indicted under the Sedition Act for an essay he had written in the Vermont Journal accusing the administration of " ridiculous pomp, foolish adulation, and selfish avarice ".

The film was not released theatrically, and did not attract the sort of adulation from critics that greeted his later work.

Seidl, who had served as Wagner's assistant, was a renowned conductor of the composer's works ; Seidl's romantic interpretations inspired both adulation and controversy.

It was a remarkable achievement, in which he came to personify the Army of the Potomac and reaped the adulation of his men.

Where his solos could be heard to emulate the horn players ' attack — with the use of frequent arpeggios punctuated by chromaticism — this was, in part, because of his determination to see that the pianist get the adulation usually reserved for the saxophonist or trumpeter.

This was met with widespread adulation ; contemporary accounts report the ringing of church bells and the lighting of bonfires throughout the country.

Perhaps it was Garrick's acting, the most showy of his careers, that brought him the most adulation.

" Sarah was an elegant lady and worthy of all the honor and adulation she had received ," said Joseph Hess, an Administrator of the Phoebe-Devitt Homes Foundation facility where Knauss lived.

Paralleling the increasing adulation was Krishnamurti's growing discomfort with it.

Cardigan was able to enjoy many months of adulation before doubts about his conduct emerged: He was made Inspector-General of Cavalry, the government recommended him for the Order of the Garter, although the Queen denied him this honour because of the previous unseemly incidents in his private life ; he was instead invested as a knight in the Order of the Bath.

Romanian president Nicolae Ceauşescu was impressed by ideological mobilization and mass adulation in North Korea during his Asia visit in 1971, and began his systematization campaign shortly afterward with those features.

It was a remarkable achievement, in which he came to personify the Army of the Potomac and reaped the adulation of his men.

Baikuntha Mallik was Jatayu's Bengali teacher at Ethenium Institution when he was in the seventh grade. Lalmohan babu often describes him as a great poet who did not get the adulation he desrved. There is no presence of him in the story but in some stories we can see Jatayu reciting his poems.

His adulation was only surpassed by those of Andrei Kirilenko and Heydar Aliyev.

But the adulation was to be short-lived.

Hans Makart ( May 28, 1840 – October 3, 1884 ) was a 19th century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator ; most well known for his influence on Gustav Klimt and other Austrian artists, but in his own era considered an important artist himself and was a celebrity figure in the high culture of Vienna, attended with almost cult-like adulation.

" Godfrey received adulation from fans who felt that despite his considerable wealth, he was really " one of them ," his personality that of a friendly next-door-neighbor.

He then gathered his fellow tribesmen to settle at Mecca, where he enjoyed such adulation from his kin that they adjudged him their de facto king, a position that was enjoyed by no other descendant of his.

A versatile actor, director, producer, singer and music director, his multifaceted talent earned him much acclaim and adulation.

Livia had always been a principal beneficiary of the climate of adulation that Augustus had done so much to create, and which Tiberius despised (" a strong contempt for honours ", Tacitus, Annals 4. 37 ).

There are enough references in his works to the ' inferior, non-European races ,' to the ' power of inferior strata and races ,' to disgusting ' Negro syncopations ' in jazz, to ' Jewish psychoanalysis '-- and enough adulation of the Aryans — for us to divine that Evola's ' spiritual ' racism may have had something other than disinterested Apollonian origins.

Nevertheless, the New Zealand team, and Cairns in particular, received unprecedented adulation when they returned home for a three-match series against England, who had lost the Ashes 2-1 and had failed to make the WSC Finals in their recently completed Australian tour.

While he was still opposed by elements of the party's right wing ( most notably the Marquess of Salisbury, himself a future Prime Minister ), his role in securing the passage of the bill, in particular his showing against William Ewart Gladstone, had won him the adulation of a wide base of the parliamentary party.

Despite the popular adulation of gladiators, they were set apart, despised ; and despite Cicero's contempt for the mob, he shared their admiration: " Even when have been felled, let alone when they are standing and fighting, they never disgrace themselves.

Had that tall dark boy, carrying trays too heavy for him, found what he might have considered adulation of a man he probably hated more than he could bear??

This concern for the welfare of the common soldier together with his ability to inspire trust and confidence, and his willingness to share the dangers of battle, often earned him adulation from his men – " The known world could not produce a man of more humanity ," observed Corporal Matthew Bishop.

He was a shy man, too, who was not always able to deal comfortably with the media spotlight and blare of public adulation that he was subjected to during the years of his athletic prime.

The religion of Moloch — as such creeds may be generically called — is in essence the cringing submission of the slave, who dare not, even in his heart, allow the thought that his master deserves no adulation.

His work wins him adulation and renown ; but it also rouses the jealousy of Lord Belasco, who will use any means to take over the throne.

Yes, there are plenty of Christian and other Hollywood executives who worship money above all else, promoting for profit the adulation of violence.

" Although the term originally was coined with a negative connotation, in reference to the pitcher ( who must " walk off " the field with his head hung in shame ), it has come to acquire a more celebratory connotation, for the batter who circles the bases with pride with the adulation of the home crowd.

Even though Karna devoted his services to the evil Duryodhana, in the epic story told in the Mahābhārata, he remains a figure of adulation for millions of Hindus and Indians, who regard him as the greatest warrior of all time.

Espejo argued that the people of Quito were accustomed to adulation and that they admired any preacher who could quote the Bible in a pompous and insubstantial way.