I am really confused about who, exactly, he was congratulating — congratulations to you, handful of New Hampshirites who voted for me but were soundly trounced and I didn't really work that hard to win your votes, anyway?
He receives two letters in which he is congratulated for the rectitude and silence he displayed in the face of Betty's adulterous affair with Terry Veneering, a British lawyer in Hong Kong and a man Old Filth hated.
When he returns to the base in Kathmandu, he is congratulated for killing two hundred people, but the true number, he knows, is only thirteen; his is one of the "small bombs" of the novel's title, a minor disturbance of next to no political import in a country used to catastrophic death.
The fact that Prince Mohammed bin Salman has decided to detain these activists now as he is congratulated on the world stage for the progress these women have been fighting for is puzzling at best.
"Andra told me, 'I can't say anything else.' He was congratulating me as we were playing".
This week he was congratulating the Christian Social Movement for its good works in schools and communities.Well, Bagehot, too, gets a warm glow from togetherness.
And how glad I am that I have become a well-behaved little boy!' " Here we know Collodi is laughing at his character: Pinocchio hasn't learned to be a well-behaved little boy — the fairy's told him so — and he's congratulating himself not with the resolution to be a better boy but with the "great complacency" of a job well done.
When asked last week by ESPN Radio what team he preferred to face in the championship round, Bylsma's quotation in part, stated that playing the Devils would be great, "because I'd really like to shake Scott Stevens's hand when he's congratulating me on winning the Stanley Cup".
One of my favourite lines belonged to Sandy, when he was congratulating Roper on the decoy run at the Syrian border: "You are a very bad man!" It was said like a joke, accompanied by a feeble high five – one public school boy to another, deploying a tone of camp distance to make their mundane exploits seem more exciting.
Talking about chatter or maybe he's congratulating me on my new promotion or something like.
