Sentence examples for a passing compliment from inspiring English sources
In French Provincial Food, Elizabeth David's citation of The Sudden View expressed not just a passing compliment but a fellow-feeling.
"I'm addicted to the lifestyle". Through it all, Nash still practices the little things she learned long ago in flight attendant school in Miami, such as making an effort to engage each passenger with a passing compliment ("nice tie") and affectionate small talk.
On a tour through a technical school in Wisconsin, she stayed at his shoulder, shaking hands and passing compliments to a man demonstrating an automated cutting machine.
That honor actually goes to Judith Speyer's short story "The Man With a Balloon in His Heart," which ran in the issue of June 30 , 1975 Barbara thinks, You could pass a compliment once or twice in your life.
Mr. Cuomo, who invited a reporter to canoe with him, shouted to his aides as they passed — complimenting one for his paddling stroke, teasing another about fishing skills — and he marveled at the scenery.
And it was no skin off my back to always pass compliments along to him.
Despite an overall lack of goals last year – Vancouver only managed to net 42, fewer than the Colorado Rapids and Toronto FC – Carl Robinson's Whitecaps played some adventurous football in the final month of play, with Mauro Rosales' adroit passes complimenting the speed and skill of Kekuta Manneh and Pedro Morales up front.
And anti-gay laws have been passed, compliments U.S. Evangelicals".
A fellow Osborne resident, Jeffrey Lyons, a former host of TV's "Sneak Previews" and "At the Movies," "called to me across the lobby to pass on a compliment from Colin Firth," she recalled.
The ideas of excellence and failure are so intimately linked in French that what passes for a compliment is to say that someone has un français châtié a well-punished French.
The star forward and the mascot were standing next to each other in the shower when Johnson passed on a compliment far more valuable than the $50 or so Sam earned every game.
