Word: compliments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...aging courtesan named Lea, nude but for a sheet, is lying next to her lover. "You are so beautiful," he murmurs. Given that Fred, whose nickname is Chéri, is 30 years her junior and has been sponging off her for six years, the compliment could be construed as part of his job description. But Lea is played by Michelle Pfeiffer, so the young man isn't sucking up - he's just stating the obvious...
...Tonys? Yes, that was fun, an adventure. Just having that whole experience in that new world was fun. Walking the red carpet and seeing all those people from a different world than I'm from, but it was fun that they accepted me. It was a great compliment to get nominated...
...recommend reminding your grandmother, the next time you talk to her, that she's always the one who remembers the grandkids' birthdays or who recalls all the measurements in the family biscuit recipe (or, if you're from New England, the family martini recipe). Maybe such a little compliment could help Grandmother find her car keys the next time she has misplaced them...
...most important qualities that entrepreneurs need to have: he’s a go-getter,” adds Roy I. Ben-Dor, another HBS student and mentor to Shah. Kendall says he has spoken to Shah once or twice about his program to compliment him on the site’s success. “It’s nice to see when high school and college students focus on not only their peers,” he says. “For instance, he came up with this in high school, but then after high school he kept...
...Sessions' colleagues, for the most part, say he is a changed man. Senator Arlen Specter, whose defection to the Democratic Party opened the door for Sessions to move up, bent over backward on Tuesday to compliment the Alabaman, even though Specter was on the committee in 1986 and voted against Sessions at the time. "My vote against candidate Sessions for the federal court was a mistake," Specter told reporters on Capitol Hill, "because I have since found that Senator Sessions is egalitarian." Echoed Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican and another long-term member of the committee, "The reason...