Now string up in the trees, and look forward to compliments from your fellow campers.
But we wanted to have a laugh tonight, for once, because it's the weekend," said David, 17. Fofana wore a jewel-blue dress to match her aquamarine hair extensions, and smiled shyly at David's compliments as they joined a group of sharply dressed friends at the Fatou Rose hotel, the town's crown jewel, whose tiled façade rises two storeys above the dusty streets.
Here the sweetness and crunchiness of the coconut compliments the salty, earthy flavours of the aubergine and noodles.
Greeting one another with the sort of hyperbolic flattery associated with female bonding, they bat away compliments with the requisite self-lacerating retorts.
If someone compliments you on having written The History Boys, are you tempted to murmur "How very kind" and move on?
COMPLIMENTS come cheap in campaign season, but the officers standing at the back of the meeting still grin when the candidate announces that Los Angeles has the "finest police department in America".
In a visit to Australia late in 2011, Obama startled the Chinese leadership but won compliments elsewhere with the announcement of a new permanent U.S. Marine presence in Darwin, on Australia's northern coast.
IN THE day since her nomination, we've heard a flood of compliments about Elena Kagan from everyone who's ever worked with her, which includes much of the Democratic aristocracy.
Atlantans are not particularly fond of hearing how things are done differently in other cities: if you must compare, balance criticisms with compliments.
Mr Bergsten compliments the United States for its perspicacity in forging PTAs that can be opened wider in due course emphasising America's leadership, to be contrasted with the less public-spirited attitudes of the "inward-looking" EU.
Since then I've been taking lessons in dribs and drabs.The nice thing is that Palestinians are so impressed with a foreigner who speaks any Arabic at all that I always get compliments.
