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...said. “He’s a guy that we’ll certainly have to be well aware of where he is, what he’s doing. He certainly has the ability to make other players around him better, and that’s a compliment to him. So he’s a guy we’ll have to definitely keep...
...really catchy, but that is not necessarily a compliment. The indie-pop side project of actress Zooey Deschanel and musician M. Ward produce winsome and memorable tunes, but these tunes lack substance. The duo’s sophomore album, “Volume Two,” is a solid release, with pretty, bittersweet melodies, but the music breaks no emotional or musical barriers. Sticking to pathos with a smile, it offers very limited rewards...
...international political economy at IMD in Switzerland, is that the E.U. is "paralyzed by its members." A senior Asian official describes - with evident exasperation - how at international summits European leaders talk endlessly to each other. "They're very clubby," he says, and it isn't meant as a compliment...
Wherever he served, he made a difference. That is the compliment Al Haig, who died on Feb. 20 at age 85, would have most appreciated. Service was his purpose. Courage was his defining characteristic. Patriotism, his impetus...
...want to start by paying you a compliment. I think that right now you could be said to personify home cooking in 2010. You are what Fannie Farmer or Betty Crocker or James Beard was to Americans in the past. Or, I guess Betty Crocker is imaginary. But you're in that line. That's a huge compliment...