Word: compliment
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Wellstone accomplished something that few others have. He made me proud to be a liberal. He was the Bobbie Kennedy of my generation and, I know that, in his world, there is probably no better compliment. Thus, perhaps the best words that can be used to remember Wellstone are the ones used in 1968 to remember Robert F. Kennedy ’48: “[He] need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right...
...book's title, when uttered by a member of the Muffia--the nonworking mums--is not a compliment. They send thank-you notes for play dates, needle Kate about when she will go part time and snap up the best party clowns, leaving Kate with one who specializes in twisting balloons into phallic designs. Kate sees both sides of the mother divide: "The non-working mother looks at the working mother with envy and fear because she thinks that the working mum has got away with it, and the working mum looks back with fear and envy because she knows...
...hours of films), and by its persistent good humor. Even the occasional eccentrics?like the tough guy at a screening of Kim Tae Gyun's Volcano High who was moved to shout, "Korean movies rule!"?show more cheer than menace. There are no tiffs at TIFF. "Nice" is a compliment Torontonians don't care for, but until they start mistreating the film professionals who come here from across North America, Europe and Asia, they are stuck with...
...look for a multilateralist approach to these dire challenges, whilst [the American] administration appears set on a unilateral approach...” He doesn’t go on to say exactly why this is a problem, but one guesses he doesn’t mean it as a compliment...
...small media contingent is present, and during a break MSNBC asks Hilary whether she would mind doing a quick interview. The reporter asks about her father and about how she has changed in the past year. Afterward, the crew members compliment her poise in front of the camera...