Word: compliment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...your product and you want people to follow you, but when they become rich and famous they don?t have time for regular people anymore, which I find really irritating. For her to say to me that it?s funny and she gets it is a great compliment - she gets that I have fun with it and I?m not trying to be mean-spirited...
...imagery, made him ripe for satire. Sid Caesar played a Hammer character on Your Show of Shows. Al Feldstein led off the first issue of Panic, the sibling of Mad comic book, with a story called "Me, the Verdict," an acute burlesque of Spillane tropes. The highest compliment was paid by Fred Astaire, who in 1953's The Band Wagon devoted an entire ballet, called "The Girl Hunt," to the Hammer mystique. (A decade later, Spillane tipped his fedora to Astaire by titling a Hammer novel The Girl Hunters...
...while in the '60's, with Bob Dylan forging poetry from folk and rock music, it seemed possible that more traditional bards might return the compliment and make pop out of poetry. The leading candidate was Leonard Cohen, a Montreal poet and novelist. Cohen wrapped his sepulchral baritone around songs of betrayal and loss that shivered with the bruised romantic's gift of inexhaustible awe. Cohen never became a pop star--others had hits from his lusciously haunting Suzanne and Sisters of Mercy--but his pieces hung in the mind, like psalms or dirges remembered from childhood...
...Take the compliment. Our career choice means we really do think that you--with your aches and pains--are more interesting than trading hot securities, more fun than a courtroom full of lawyers. Massaging the ego is the key to manipulating responsible types like doctors. When we feel your trust, you have...
...Sorry, but I’ve got to go. Don’t forget, class, I’m taking a look at your prints tomorrow.”So, thanks, Om, for using up my professor’s single compliment for that week. He sure as hell didn’t offer any others in my vicinity.Legend has it that this particular professor used to party with Bowie and Warhol, so I had high expectations when I headed to Om’s sweet media release party.Hell, I figure if it’s good enough for someone...