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Example sentences for: fawning

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Republicans might propose Uriah Heep in David Copperfield . Heep, synonymous with unctuousness, is a fawning fellow who worms his way up through oozing manipulation.
There is, however, little they can do about the fawning farewells to Robert Rubin.
Even Lonely Planet, the least fawning of my books, coughs that its "writers do not accept discounts or payments in exchange for positive coverage."
But the ultimate confirmation of Chihuly's stature is the lottery hometown artists stage to mock Seattle's star-struck provincialism and celebrity fawning: The winner gets to "smash a Chihuly."
Which of the following are actual Tina Brown rationalizations for her magazine's slide into darkness (quoted by New York Times writer Alex Kuczynski), and which are amusing digs at a debased editorial philosophy built around fawning over celebrity?