Not you. Why are you trying to win his puling flatteries?

Back then, irrational news decisions, sycophancy, and propaganda were passed off as journalism. In those days, editors, reporters, and columnists played a cat and mouse game with the authorities, resorting to satire, humor, or metaphor.

Yes, it is a lovely day.

The sun will shine.

It's a sunny morning.

Say, fine beautiful morning, mi amigo.

When regimes lose legitimacy in the eyes of their citizens, it is not reasonable to derive one s information mainly from that regime s servants and sycophants. In such cases, diplomats will too often merely report the regime s reassuring yet biased analysis.

Hot dog. What a sexy slap.

I call that the cynical design.

Work through the sunny noon

Oh, it looks like a beautiful day.

Mary makes the sun shine bright

Pick out a pleasant outlook

I was under the impression it was still bright sunshine.

You'll love the way I fit on your knee

Supposing she should have fixed on the very person you would have wished?

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.

A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.

A beautiful summer day, a group of friends travelling.

I know. I've seen you making eyes.

So that one sunny morning, One year earlier, or two,

Welcome to Mandrake Falls... where the scenery enthralls...

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Unfortunately, meritocracy has been eroded by a political culture of sycophancy and cynicism. Designing a screening mechanism to minimize adverse selection in choosing bureaucrats and party officials has become one of the biggest challenges that China s ruling elites confront.

that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

Excuse me. But this is a sunlit exterior.

A lying tongue hates those it hurts and a flattering mouth works ruin.

A lying tongue hates those it hurts and a flattering mouth works ruin.

A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.