Word: complimented
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...didn't work out. Penner wrote as Christine Daniels for only a few months before reverting to his original byline. His death is being investigated as a suicide. Penner's editor described him as "capable of reporting on any number of topics with great wit and style"--a compliment any reporter could identify as highest praise...
...girl version of a man. By the way, do you ever see any man called [that]? You never see that kind of a description. You'll never see, "He's a guy version of Lisa Scottoline." I resist that as much as I take it as a compliment. The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing. (See the top 10 airplane books...
...think it’s a compliment in a way,” said Ruo S. Chen ’12. “It makes me feel good that people are willing to pay that much money to get a diploma from the school that...
Strangely, it is Berlusconi who has not let the incident rest. He called his critics "imbeciles," saying the remark was meant as a compliment. "We'd all like to be tanned like Naomi Campbell and Obama," he said two weeks after the original one-liner. He has made other references to it in the months since. (See Berlusconi's worst gaffes...
...respect and acknowledge the area there, and I can see it now...through the poems,” Armitage said. “Occasionally, people will describe me as a Northern writer. But if it describes what the poem is about, then I take it as a compliment.” Rachael L. Goldberg ’12 said that Armitage’s reading exposed her to a new experience, “Reading his poems and hearing him read them were two very different experiences,” she said. “Simon Armitage was amazing, brilliant...