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  • The process of gaining a person's trust by showering him or her with praise and affection as a means toward the end of brainwashing said person.

    July 7, 2008

  • "Some of Gifford’s former students say they saw a pattern of love-bombing before withholding. “She butters you up at the beginning and then later treats you badly,” observes Kristine Sabella, who spent more than six years at the conservatory, leaving in 2012. “You’re left trying to get that hit again.”

    May 28, 2022