Mrs. Lambert said several board members complimented her for having a son with courage and integrity.
But when one reporter complimented her for having a personality, Creamer responded, "Once you step out on the court, it's a whole different thing".
Shankara referred to Gaudapada as the teacher of his own teacher Govinda, complimented him for having recovered the advaita (nondualism) doctrine from the Vedas, and also wrote a bhashya on Gaudapada's main work: the karikas on the Mandukya Upanishad.
When he was growing up in the 70's in Flatbush, Brooklyn, and the Upper West Side, black men used to approach his father on the subway to compliment him for having a beautiful black wife.
"Painting set free": my query about the subtitle of Tate Britain's show is "free from what?" In the 1960s, when Lawrence Gowing used the phrase to sum up Turner's achievement, it complimented him for having released painting from the dreary chore of mimesis.
In Dharamsala, India, the home of the Tibetan government-in-exile, the Dalai Lama tried to seize the higher moral ground and at the same time poke at China's most important aspirations when he complimented Beijing for having met three of four conditions of being a "superpower".
Chaney also complimented Finn for having gotten "the hang of this whole singing-and-dancing thing in the last three episodes of this season" and gave a grade of "B".
However, while Mezzacappa did compliment Kam for having the courage to come forward with the unusual spiritual diagnosis, the senior attending also noted that not all doctors "would entertain" such a possibility.
What gets me about this type of thinking is that, in an instant, it both negates the depth of my parental relationship by complimenting me for having one at all, and then belittles that relationship by implying I'm a stand-in for the real parent: mom.
