For five days, Hurley wanted to tell the tollbooth operators on his beloved New Jersey Turnpike, the Russian man who pumps his gas and St. Joseph's Coach Phil Martelli, a friend, when he congratulated him here Friday night.
It's good that the Film Desk has brought them together, in an act akin to cinematic montage, and it's good to be able to congratulate Lillian Ross here on the revelatory results.
And I'd congratulate myself here for stopping such an evidently compulsive behavior without the benefit of an intervention or the ability to read a self-help book except that I wasn't so much stopping as pausing.
Details of the peace negotiation have yet to be released, but let's go ahead and see how long this kind of thing lasts before we go around congratulating ourselves here.
They had sniped at each other verbally and on the ice a couple of times during the regular season, but here Ovechkin congratulated Crosby and told him he wished the Penguins would go on and win the Stanley Cup.
My headteacher, Jane Gray, is here congratulating and commiserating with students, delighted by how well we've done overall.
Last month a friend made a painful discovery: posters on a city wall here congratulating Mr. Ishaq on his imminent release.
"It seems like there are eight million people walking around here congratulating each other," said Scott Turow, the best-selling novelist who was born in the city.
And then he said, 'Well, I would like to think if I had gotten involved I wouldn't be here congratulating you right now.' And I said, 'Mr. Brown, I have no doubt about that.' But he's the Speaker.
"I must congratulate the groundsman here.
