Critics nowadays accuse her unfairly of excessive admiration for the bourgeois family, even as Trelawny and other "friends" of Percy Bysshe Shelley found her insufficiently self-sacrificing toward him.
Lady Catherine seemed gratified by their excessive admiration, and gave most gracious smiles, especially when any dish on the table proved a novelty to them.
In Abrams' view, American medicine was dominated by physicians with excessive admiration for German doctors and researchers.
Characterized by self-importance, preoccupations with fantasies, belief that they are special, including a sense of entitlement and a need for excessive admiration, and extreme levels of jealousy and arrogance.
Broken homes and childhood trauma are common among brutal killers; so is malignant narcissism, a personality type characterized not only by grandiosity but by fantasies of unlimited power and success, a deep sense of entitlement, and a need for excessive admiration.
The evil eye is believed to result of excessive admiration or envious looks by others.
Indeed, he talks about the "myth" of his own "irresistibility," but he also has interesting things to say about the discomforts of living within that myth - of being the object of private desire and public projections, of excessive admiration, resentment and scorn.
It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and respect from my fellows through no fault, and no merit, of my own.
Firstly Antiochus IV had 'had spent part of his early life in Rome and had acquired rather an excessive admiration for Rome's power and methods'.
The requirement of excessive admiration from others 5.