But again, in my experience the business issue was never too much praise, but too little.
Back in New York, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has garnered banner headlines and much praise for his pay-to-play pension fund probe that has already led to four guilty pleas by investors and politicians.
Former England Under-21 international Bothroyd has scored 13 goals in 15 games this season, but his all-round play has earned just as much praise as his place at the top of the Championship scoring charts.
But they also get so much praise for doing things that ordinary people just do look at the gooey rapture over seeing the Yankees assemble as a team in the back of Rivera's news conference, as if it was some grand act, and not basic, expected human courtesy for a teammate.
Amid all that we did find much to praise close to home, though.
Many others, however, dismiss the compact with so much faint praise.
Arthur Phillips's first novel, which documents the life of John Price, a young American who quit Los Angeles for Budapest circa 1990, comes with much advance praise.
Understandably, Farrell has been at pains to reduce the weight of expectation heaped on his broad shoulders, while much of the praise lavished on him has come with caveats that we should not expect too much, too soon.
Much of his praise went to Russ Smith, a slight 6-foot junior who scored 27 on Saturday, who was never Calipari material.
Mr Hague has won the much-needed praise of Lady Thatcher, but she would still prefer him to rule Britain out of the euro forever.
She said she had no choice in her calling, and had to follow the path set for her by God, even if her work sometimes brought as much criticism as praise.
The irony of this is that you provided much more fulsome praise of Ronald Reagan in a book by Tom Brokaw that's being published right now, as did -- as did Bill Clinton in the past.
Mr. LEGAN: The critics rave about Casino Royale and praise the much-debated casting choice of Daniel Craig.
So far Egypt's military rulers have earned little but praise, dispelling much of the unease about their intentions.
They lavish praise and authority (too much perhaps) on their two main sources upon which they built their version of events.
There, everyone heaped praise on Dustin Hoffman's Raymond, while ignoring the much more subtle portrayal of his brother by Tom Cruise - the performance that grounds the film and makes it work.
And his letter reiterated his belief the club should focus as much as possible on developing young players, singling out those currently in the team for special praise.
And honors abound: three out of three reviewers agree that the iPhone is pretty much the sexiest phone to ever hit the market, and there was no small amount of praise for the high resolution screen, svelte form factor and sturdy construction -- nano scratchers rejoice, nobody managed to make a mark on this thing.
But he took every chance to heap praise on Linda's progression from one-finger keyboard player to, er, not much more.
Burnley boss Coyle was glowing in his praise for opposite number Wenger before the game - and his players were arguably guilty of showing Arsenal too much respect in the opening exchanges.
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