Word: compliments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Price had a field day against Hobert, completing six out of seven passes for 142 yards including one for a touchdown, and Price the rare compliment of rating him a better passer than Gene Rossides was during the same stage in the latter's brilliant career...
...returns to his present home in Montevideo. Like his compatriot, Catalan Cellist Pablo Casals, he has not returned to Spain since the civil war of the '30s. Still practicing from five to six hours a day, self-taught Andrés Segovia often permits himself a restrained self-compliment: "The teacher is satisfied with his pupil...
...Ford, Christopher Tietjens, incorruptible paragon, represented "the last English Tory." The implied compliment is one that even the most ardent Tory, in real life, would consider too good to be true. But Parade's End, like many a fine work of fiction, is not intended to be literally true to life. It is first & foremost an artist's dream, always larger than life, more drenched with passion and drama. Often tortuously long, always intensely complicated by the mingling of thought and action, it is likely to be too much of a Kanchenjunga for most readers to struggle...
...American reporters who would like to know what his breeding plans are for Whirlaway, Boussac will politely lift his hat, smilingly extend his hand in greeting. A subaltern will whisper, "M. Boussac thinks you have just paid him a compliment." No matter how well the reporter speaks French, the interview is closed. Four or five years hence, M. Boussac may supply the answer on French, British and possibly U.S. racetracks...
...would like to compliment John Osborne for his excellent report from, Korea [TIME, Aug. 21]. I think the people of the United States should realize that the only way in which we can defeat Communism is by proving to the people of the world, and to the Communist people themselves, that the democratic way of life has more to offer than the dictatorial way of life. "We must talk to the people," as Mr. Osborne so aptly puts...