Word: complimented
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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NICE OF POTUS TO NOTICE President Bush interrupts his Rose Garden press conference to bestow an unexpected compliment, telling NBC's David Gregory (who recently tussled with a microphone cord), "I must say, having gone through those gyrations, you're looking beautiful today, Dave." Oh, Mr. President, you big flirt...
...proving that he's just as contradictory as his countrymen. If he saw an elderly lady in need of help with her luggage, "I would split in two. While Beppe was being a Good Samaritan, Severgnini would observe the scene and offer congratulations. Beppe would then acknowledge his own compliment, and retire satisfied." But for all of its folksiness, the book can't escape a weightier encounter with history. Severgnini laments Italy's former playboy PM, Silvio Berlusconi, as the personification and perpetuator of the world's Italian stereotypes. "He had a lethal charm," he says. "My book explains...
...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...
...would you feel about being called the Martha Stewart of the tech blog world? Martha Stewart has come before. I would take it as a really big compliment - I can't bake or cook - but she is really successful...
...first name, Tom, but the blog is popular enough that even if it's technically private, it's really easy to deduce who someone is, and that has very interesting ramifications. I think the better comparison is reality television - people really want to be on it. It's a compliment in a weird, 21st century kind...