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Martin Luther King, a slave of the bourgeoisie, a useless social element, a public servant, an adulator, Washington's bootlicker, a traitor.
Martin Luther King, un esclavo de la burguesía un elemento social inútil. un servidor público un adulador, un lamebotas de Washington, un traidor
Appreciate the wise critics, Charles, or you will end up surrounded by adulators.
Apreciad las críticas sabias, Carlos, o acabaréis rodeado de aduladores.
Will he stop constructing his castles and enriching his adulators to pay what he owes you?
¿Dejará de construir sus castillos y de enriquecer a sus aduladores para pagaros lo que os debe?
I translated it and felt the waves of adulation coming at me.
Se la traduje, y sentí que llegaba hasta mí un montón de palabras aduladoras.
With Baby on his arm Piper was swallowed up in the adulating crowd.
Aquella multitud de aduladores se tragó a Piper con Baby colgada del brazo.
an origin that the flatterers and adulators of the Spanish dynasty actually traced back to the royal house of Aragon, a descent that seems highly unlikely.
orígenes que los aduladores de la estirpe española hacen remontar nada menos que a la familia del rey de Aragón, por más que sea poco probable.
But how could she have helped herself? I asked, imagining the sneers and the laughter, the adulation of the toadies, the scepticism of the professional poet.
Pero ¿cómo hubiera podido evitarlo?, me pregunté, imaginando las burlas y las risas, las alabanzas de los aduladores, el escepticismo del poeta profesional.
And in fact, one after another, the Iberian lackeys, servants, and professional adulators immediately took to their heels, and Rodrigo was left alone to hear the Holy Father’s last words.
Tanto es así que, uno detrás de otro, tiralevitas, sirvientes y aduladores ibéricos de profesión se esfuman al instante, y Rodrigo se queda solo para recoger los últimos suspiros del Santo Padre.
Bedevere pranced afterward in full battle regalia, frequently turning to keep a protective eye upon the king, who rode laughing like a boy among the adulate multitude, arms upraised victoriously, happy face lifted to a blue sky deep as heaven.
Bedevere marchó después, ataviado con todos los arreos de batalla, volviendo a menudo un ojo protector hacia el rey, que cabalgaba riendo como un muchacho entre el adulador gentío, con los brazos triunfantes en alto y el rostro alegre alzado hacia un cielo azul hondo como el empíreo.
He was not even a Catholic, yet that was the only ghost of a code that he had, the gaudy, ritualistic, paradoxical Catholicism whose prophet was Chesterton, whose claqueurs were such reformed rakes of literature as Huysmans and Bourget, whose American sponsor was Ralph Adams Cram, with his adulation of thirteenth-century cathedrals—a Catholicism which Amory found convenient and ready-made, without priest or sacraments or sacrifice.
Ni siquiera era católico, aunque el único espectro de código que obedecía era ese ritual, ostentoso y paradójico catolicismo cuyo mejor profeta era Chesterton, cuya claque estaba formada por esos arrepentidos libertinos de la literatura como Huysmans y Bourget, cuyo padrino americano era Ralph Adams Cram, adulador de las catedrales del siglo XIII, un catolicismo que Amory encontraba conveniente y adecuado, sin sacerdotes, ni sacramentos, ni sacrificios.
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