8 examples of over-praise in sentences

whom do I over-praise?

When you see her you won't say I've over-praised her.

Dante consigned the flatterers to Inferno, and more particularly to a very nasty place there: it is true that there were no musical critics in his day; but he does not say much about the flattered, perhaps because they suffer enough when they find out the truth, or lose the gift for which they have been over-praised.

The higher peaks of Snowdon sink down behind the lower spurs in front; the plain narrows; closes in, walled round with woodlands clinging to the steep hill-sides; and, at last, they enter the narrow gorge of Pont-Aberglaslyn,pretty enough no doubt, but much over-praised; for there are in Devon alone a dozen passes far grander, both for form and size.

Our lenience toward the defects of princes, the great, and the rich, and our over-praise for their excellent qualities are, from the moral standpoint, an injustice, but one which has this advantage, that it encourages ambition and industry, and maintains social distinctions intact, which without loyalty and respect toward superiors would be broken down.

PEPYS, Samuel, Lord Orrery's plays, v. 237, n. 4; Spring Garden, iv. 26, n. 1; tea, i. 313, n. 2. PEPYS, William Weller, account of him, iv. 82, n. 1; Johnson, attacked by, iv. 65, n. 1; over-praised by Mrs. Thrale, iv. 82; attacked again, iv. 159, n. 3; mentioned, ii. 228, n. 1; iii. 425.

It is famed for its beautiful tower, which, however, is perhaps a little over-praised, for the crown of pinnacles, graceful in itself, does not seem to spring naturally from the summit, but to be super-imposed upon it.

These writings gained for him the agnomen of Théophraste moderne, which his sense of fitness and natural dislike of over-praise led him to disclaim in a letter to the Mercure of October, 1717.

8 examples of  over-praise  in sentences