Word: complimented
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...never asked anyone to stop sharing his words. “If [people using them] don’t know who wrote them I’ll tell them the origin,” he says, but he considers it in general to be a huge compliment. The commandments, he points out, can be useful to just about anyone searching for personal meaning. “The search for success and the search for meaning are very different things,” he says. “But it’s the meaning that has given people the most...
Also successful is the usage of the show’s ensemble as a sort of Greek chorus that comments on Sidney’s dark journey. As they caution and cajole Sidney, they encircle him in a perfect compliment to Bob Crowley’s brilliant set design. The ensemble becomes the living, breathing manifestation of the phantasmagoric city that is suspended in the background beneath an otherworldly...
Cole, unsure of how to accept the odd compliment, merely smiled and reflexively thanked the timer. Though he was slightly taken aback by the congratulatory greeting, it wasn’t the first time Cole had heard the “Harvard” angle before...
Cole could only smile and thank the official for his odd compliment...
...What he can't accept is a compliment or concern, especially from the ladies. When Sally murmurs that she wishes she could help him, Sidney feels obliged to shoot down the neediness at once: "And what will you do... open your meaty, sympathetic arms...?" That "meaty" is a zinger. It shows how practiced Sidney is at hurting people; he can do it so acutely without hardly trying. Does he even know who's on the receiving end of his barbs? At one point he calls Sally "Sam," even as he sometimes addresses J.J.'s secretary Mary (Edith Atwater) as "Maida...