People would compliment his work; Mr. Henry tended to agree with them.
Whenever he answered the phone, friends and business acquaintances would invariably compliment his voice.
The chain grew rapidly and, giving him the ultimate compliment, his former employer, WH Smith, bought him out in 1993.
So perhaps it's appropriate to compliment his achievement by altering Laertes' comment on his troubled sister, Ophelia.
(According to The New Yorker, he would compliment his own appearance, "I think he looks cute," he wrote about himself).
What he was trying to do, he said, was compliment his own staff for getting the team ready.
Compliment his kinfolk and establish a light, collegial atmosphere with an icebreaker perhaps a gender-sensitive joke about mulatto children.
To this day, Nicholas Spano said, people come up to him and compliment his "cousin," the county executive.
Did he return that compliment?His closest aides were those he brought with him from the Bush administration: Robin Cleveland and Kevin Kellems.
(Despite the compliment, his sister corrects his grammar immediately; both Claudia's pedantry and her pathological independence insured that the young me would deeply identify with her).
It is a natural successor to the earlier installation he created at Deitch's SoHo base to compliment his film The Science of Sleep.
