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...It’s amazing to have Adrienne Rich here,” she said. “I want to extend the deepest kind of thank...
...looking for someone to translate a passage from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses.”In the movie, a beautiful German translator asks Matt Damon’s character if he’s read Ovid, and Damon responds with the quotation Schafer translated.As a thank-you, Schafer and his wife were invited to one of the movie’s rehearsals at the set in Manhattan.“And this very nice guy, the brilliant dialect coach, said, ‘Hey Matty! Here’s John! Helped us on the Latin...
...Lady Sarah admits that following Diana's death, she and her mother, Frances Shand Kydd, shredded "sensitive" documents that might be "distressing" to Princes Harry and William, including thank-you notes and pamphlets from "soothsayers." But she maintains that no "historical" documents, such as correspondence with Prince Philip, were ever shredded: "My conscience is clear on what I destroyed." Still, prying open the wooden chest - and potentially unleashing those letters onto the world - may have been akin to opening Pandora's box. For a mythic figure like Diana, it's a fitting comparison...
...This year, though, nobody showed. Blanchett graciously issued a thank-you statement anyway. Schnabel watched the show on an airport TV set, and told a reporter he was pleased. The rest presumably saved their acceptance speeches in hopeful anticipation of delivering them on the Oscar show - if there is one. I have to say that, for all the flak the usual Globes dinner takes, I missed the parade of the elite, the witticisms and platitudes, the stars chatting one another up, or stuck in traffic or the bathroom. I can forgive the Hollywood Foreign Press Association almost anything, so long...
...Kidman-Coulter is all purring perfidy as she slinks through the mansion where Lyra is her guest and captive. The lady wears her gold or white ensembles so perfectly, you can almost hear the frocks whisper thank-you as they cling to her. But the bloodshot eyes are the giveaway to the character's venality. Her daemon is another: it's an ill-tempered monkey, with whom she has an abusive parent relationship. In one of the film's sharpest, most surprising scenes, Mrs. C. slaps it in anger, then promptly caresses and coos to it. Mummy hits you, Mummy...