Will Self

You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.

English Author

Martin Jacques

After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its neighbours, including China, with generous economic assistance. Only in 1995 did it finally offer an apology, but this was of the most limited and formulaic kind.

British Journalist

Graeme Base

Some people can sit and enjoy the view... some people like to take photos to feel complete. I need to somehow possess it in some other way. I just have to somehow grasp it and take it home in a more fulsome way. It's where ideas come from.

English Artist

Rick Wilson

Obama was referred to in terms so glowing, so fulsome, so toadying that it was easy to pin down the journalist class of 2008 as a group of fangirls squeeing and fainting at his every utterance.

American Author

Richard Cobden

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

British Businessman

Rick Perlstein

Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.

American Historian

George Jean Nathan

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

American Editor

Using 'fulsome' can imply insincerity or unpleasant excessiveness, often perceived negatively.

Negative Connotation

In modern use, 'fulsome' often appears in sarcastic comments where the praise is clearly too much.

Sarcastic Context

Be cautious when using 'fulsome' to avoid misunderstanding since it can be taken as fake enthusiasm.

Avoiding Overuse

Use 'fulsome' to convey the idea of abundance or generosity in a literary or historical context.

Generous Amounts

Understand that 'fulsome' with the meaning of 'abundant' is not commonly used today and sounds archaic.

Historical Usage

'Fulsome' can describe positive excess, like in a feast, but be careful as it may also suggest overabundance.

Describing Excess

 We knew what really happened; someone told them to say this. We don't exactly know who, which person did, but any rate, the confession was coerced, we determined. We then went back and did forensics and did a fulsome investigation and found that two other,