Word: compliments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...music-hall format in which the Standwells excel has attracted a number of well-known admirers, among them Conductor Leonard Bernstein, Duo-pianists Gold and Fizdale, and Sir John Gielgud. Perhaps the highest professional compliment the Standwells ever received was from Director-Choreographer Jerome Robbins. While experimenting with repertory theater in 1967, Robbins bought out the theater one night and invited his cast. He had been impressed by a puppet performance of a scene from Romeo and Juliet; that evening, he asked Peschka and Murdock to repeat the scene, leaving out the words but explaining their puppets' actions...
...student of international business, I would like to compliment you on your article on the foreign trade bill [Nov. 23]. This bill is a true outrage not only to the principles and benefits of free trade but also to the U.S. consumer and citizen-voter. The bill is a blatant appeal to certain interest groups at the expense of the inflation-burdened Silent Majority...
...would like to compliment you on your fine article, "The Blue Collar Worker's Lowdown Blues" [Nov. 9]. I am a blue collar worker, and I know that pride in one's work is all a blue collar can hope to achieve. But this pride is being squeezed from one side by big management and from the other side by out-of-touch big-union labor leaders...
...appear sympathetic to Communism. Show respect for their system and compliment them on what they do well, but any overdone praise of Communism is likely to seem phony...
...always had the feeling that he was reading over our shoulder, chewing rugs because of some of our words. He could be outraged that we didn't give his revolution the support he thought it deserved, but still he would respect us for our honesty. The greatest compliment he could give any newsman came to me in 1962 when he told a visitor, "Wilton Wynn understands...