They focus on weddings, reunions and funerals, which all bring family members together to recall the past, criticize and lavish praise on one another and settle old scores.
Before they heard from Johnson, they heard several officials lavish praise on one of the most remarkable track and field athletes ever.
Clearly, even for polished politicians, the rightist French president and his future US counterpart have been heaping unusually lavish praise on one another for some time now.
After all, one suspects that Americans lavish praise on the military largely out of guilt from standing by and letting their politicians send the armed forces to pointless wars in foreign hellholes.
The one thing that Keita did get right was to lavish praise on the opening act, the Mexican guitar-playing duo, Rodrigo y Gabriela, who were both witty and technically brilliant.
Giorgis used his time to lavish praise on his players and their adoring fans.
He uses it in part to lavish praise on the officers still in the room.
Do they lavish praise on every piece or barely glance up from the iPhone?
And the athletes competed with each other to lavish praise on the site.
In newspaper obituaries, it was long customary to lavish praise on the subjects, noting laudable traits of character.
Now, two months later, they lavish praise on each other, with Mr. Gorman spontaneously calling Mr. Chammah, "Mr. Charmer".
