Long before the phrase "the best and the brightest" became the accolade du jour, it was meant to strike a sardonic, not a flattering, note.
Few seem to recall that the phrase, in its original coinage, was meant to strike a sardonic, not a flattering, note.
They sent a quirky, flattering note — a doll in a little armoire containing miniature paper versions of their seven dresses — to Cameron Silver, the proprietor of Decades, a vintage store in Los Angeles, asking him to view their collection.
But they're not for the easily offended ornithologist along with less-than-flattering notes about the birds he sees, the begrudging birder gives them playground nicknames.
"Kyle, This might also be helpful," Griffin wrote, enclosing the flattering, four-paragraph note that Cummins had written nearly four years earlier, after Griffin had worked in his office as a special assistant U.S. attorney.
The richness of these warm tones flatters the cool notes found in your eyes.
Tells about his suggestions for flattering choices in suits, noting that chubbier men should wear two-button suits and that brown suits should never be worn with white shirts… Tells about the process of creating a suit from selecting the fabric to measuring, cutting, fitting and sewing.
On which flattering (to both of us) note, we go to a convivial lunch.
But the crispest rebuke came from Obama himself, who, after calling the attack flattering, said, "I would also note that we have close to a hundred and forty thousand troops on the ground now, and my understanding is that Mr. Howard has deployed fourteen hundred.
