Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some people did like my article, which argued that Christians who believe homosexual sex is wrong must nonetheless treat gays with charity, just as they must treat all other people with charity. But even those who did compliment me have raised two objections, saying either that I was condescending/patronizing or that my article was tainted by the other content of the publication...
...defeated. Toughness sometimes shades into arrogance and stubbornness. Author Gloria Steinem hardly bothered to focus her ire on the Senators who in the end supported Judge Thomas for the Supreme Court and instead unleashed her anger against "the master puppeteer." In the political world that is both grudging compliment and warning. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, smarting yet again from defeat, took the floor after the Thomas vote and poured unusual rancor on Bush. Every victory alienates someone...
...much of a compliment to be told that all the time and effort you and friends of yours spent for the good of your community isn't "so lame this year." Nor does it help to have people like Michael Grunwald write opinion pieces entitled "Lame, Lame, Lame," spewing the hackneyed anti-UC party-line, before even two UC meetings of the new year have taken place. To tell the truth, I think people must be bored by now of all the same old UC-bashing Crimson editorials. The Crimson would have much more original editorials if, for once...
Swets does, however, find some value in Visconti's systems. "We compliment these folks on trying to be innovative," he says. "We're not going to accept their hypotheses, but we're not going to reject them, either...
...pointless because Bearden possessed a deep aesthetic education: he was immersed in the self-sufficient culture of Western painting from Giotto right through to his own time, as well as in African art. It may be that curator Sharon F. Patton thought she was paying him some kind of compliment in writing that "like Pollock, de Kooning . . . and Rothko, Bearden, too, rejected the modernist tradition," but this is nonsense: none of those artists, Bearden least of all, did any such thing...