apple polish

It is time the Big Apple polished its sales pitch.

Despite its somewhat sterile new look, sweet touches abound (such as being asked if you want your apples polished).

Some thought that smacked of apple polishing, but boosterism has never been a vice at Commerce.

Rather than focusing on key weaknesses such as the capture tool and media file management, Apple polished up the interface.

I could have answered but I had already spoken up once and it doesn't do to get a reputation for apple polishing.

Apple polishes musical offerings.

All of these so-called solutions, be they "keeping your distance," "apple polishing" or "grinning and bearing," have one fatal flaw.

Appeal to flattery (also apple polishing or wheel greasing) is a fallacy in which a person uses flattery, excessive compliments, in an attempt to win support for their side.

As Dr. Kramer discovered in ample detail, the Sumerian scribes and poets sang of their gods and goddesses, of floods and kings, of school boys and apple polishing.

LEAD: I don't understand how Marcia Adams can say that the Apple Cake With Hot Caramel Sauce "will keep for a week" (Food: "Apple Polishing," Oct. 8).

But given that he has been profitably employed for nearly three years by the house's owner, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, and on Tuesday accepted the British designer of the year award, his third, from the Prince himself, Mr. McQueen's earnest declaration might just be apple polishing.