His practical advice is skimpy: if trapped in a discussion of a book you have not read, be vague; if the author is present, be congratulatory.
After the celebration, before bedtime, they'll cover the top of the clean tank in plastic wrap and, working together, moving slowly with the unison of pallbearers, being careful not to slosh the water, carry it down the stairs to the family room, where with a soft patter of congratulatory applause they'll present Fish with a new home, right next to the television set.
A few feet away, Yolanda Boles had found her husband, John, who had just completed his sixth city marathon, for which he was presented a congratulatory kiss and a bouquet of roses.
Devine was joined by Councilman Zareh Sinanyan in presenting a congratulatory certificate from the city of Glendale to Gael Davitt.
Mr Barnett pokes wicked fun at Mr Blair's version of what passes for democratic accountability, and especially the nonsense of the self-congratulatory "annual report" presented to obedient cabinet ministers and mystified journalists in the prime minister's back garden.And the second prong?
At the congratulatory event, each winner was presented with a cash prize — $3,000 for first prize, $1,500 for second, and $750 for third — and a copy of "Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book Hunter in the Twenty-First Century" by Nicholas A. Basbanes.
Congratulatory messages on anti-Communist victory in the Italian elections.
Congratulatory messages poured in.
Rudy Chavez, president of Baume & Mercier North America, presented Holmes with a Classima stainless steel watch, engraved with a congratulatory message, on Monday following Holmes' presentation at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Philadelphia.
Walter A. Wood, the Society's president was sick so R, McAllister Lloyd, chairman of the Society's coucil, presented the awards & read congratulatory telegrams from Gettysburg, Pa., Palm Beach & Sir Raymond Priestley, president of the Royal Geographical Society.
Though at least if I had done that I could use this one to present a thoughtful and self-congratulatory paean to my own subsequent ideological conversion and come out of it looking really good.
