We're delighted at the success, but honestly not surprised at Jake's popularity. He makes you feel good.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

He has kept his popularity amid all the troubles. That is his major success this year.

That little core group of students very quickly became a much larger group of students and the success and popularity of the program began to spread.

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette—the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.