Word: compliments
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...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...
...find in some ways he's changed less than most people I know, and I mean that as a compliment," he says. "He's kept the boyish qualities that one likes, and he was prematurely wise when he was young...
...gauche (left) in France, you are tactless and unsophisticated. Adroit comes from the French a droit (to the right), and we know what maladroit means -- especially when we see a left-handed violinist bowing northwest while the rest of the string section is northeast. A left-handed compliment is not nice, but a right-hand man is indispensable. If you get up on the wrong (left) side of the bed, you are grumpy. Even rwiting about it can give a leftie a migraine...
...Harvard's one of the bigger schools that gets on me," Coles said. "I take it as a compliment. I think it shows the respect that they have for me as a player...
Four years ago, Thatcher predicted, "I think, historically, the term Thatcherism will be seen as a compliment." As the proclaimed policies of her potential successors and the opposition demonstrate, that has already come to pass...