Word: compliments
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...response was so warm that she sailed proudly into Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. "You are opera!" yelled a fan from the balcony. Across the footlights Callas confided that under the proper conditions, she would be willing to return to the Met. Critics reminisce about past glories and compliment the singer on her youthful beauty. Audiences have been outwardly enthusiastic, but in the lobby, complaints are heard: "I'm disappointed. We work harder than she does." Occasionally, with one ringing B, Callas can still excite concertgoers to ecstasy, casting a spell that momentarily deafens listeners to her vocal flaws...
...role, but he is surprisingly good at conveying Gatsby's uneasiness. The social graces are not natural to him. He has a tenuous poise, a mask that falls away when he is introduced to Daisy's small daughter or when Nick pays him a sincere compliment that makes him, for the first time, smile genuinely. Redford also has a sense of Gatsby's obsession. His look of longing, fulfillment and hopelessness when he sees Daisy for the first time has, momentarily, the depth of passion that the movie never achieves again...
Shakespeare is the only writer since the author of the Bible to whom popular tradition has paid its highest compliment--doubting whether he actually existed. There has never been a satisfactory single-volume edition of Shakespeare, and the good criticism on his work is limited to about one illuminating essay per play...
...small car feels like the automotive extension of oneself, while an American V-8 is so dwarfing that I feel like it is driving me. Finally (perhaps best of all), people compliment me on my genuine austerity rather than my feigned "potency...
...that we know about Mons Herbert (who does not appear in the musical) is that he was once given a compliment by Harpo Marx as having "a dazzling mouthful of gold." Aside from any curiosity over the title, he is all but forgotten until the last line. Then the actors ask, who is Mons Herbert, anyway? Four actors act and sing the roles of misnamed, star-crossed lovers and their experience with a flend in search of a potato salad recipe. The playing out of these situations takes us through a beauty contest for cows, the trauma of a lost...