The third group includes overstretched analogies, unmeant invitations and extravagant compliments, which have their origin in the high value Brazilians place on finding and forging interpersonal connections.
Against that context, perhaps it would be no bad thing to rein in the temptation to snow future generations with extravagant compliments.
There are guns, drugs, several references to sex acts involving urine, and gross insults — unless they are extravagant compliments; I'll get back to you — to the respected profession of dentistry.
Yes, every shop in the jammed alleyways seems to sell the same things; and yes, men will attempt to draw you in to their inventory with extravagant compliments, but it's flirtatious and funny, not threatening or scary.
Mr. Bush and Mr. Kennedy, scions of the nation's two most famous and opposing political families with much to gain from the other, took time in each of their speeches at Boston Latin for extravagant compliments.
Elizabeth continued to make brilliant speeches, to exercise her authority, and to receive the extravagant compliments of her admirers, but she was, as Sir Walter Raleigh remarked, "a lady surprised by time," and her long reign was drawing to a close.
