Will the loser deliver a qualified pledge of support for the winner, offer more lavish words of praise or perhaps utter the e-word?
After taking pains to praise Mr. Cuomo on Friday — thanking him "for his friendship" — and saying that he had decided not to choose Mr. Cuomo because it would have created yet another troublesome vacancy to fill, Mr. Paterson added these lavish words: "I hope that Andrew Cuomo serves the state as senator and as governor — whichever one he would pick in the future.
The problem with such lavish advance word is that it tempts critics to comment on Ferron's reviewers rather than on the folk-oriented artist herself.
MR. COHEN, a polished raconteur, was as lavish with words as Mr. Merrick was robbed of them.
I give this ex !!!!! out of !!!!! Trigger is a lavish, important psych word (versus a "SIKE!" word) that has an important function of defining what your feelings-poison is, which might be a certain way of being touched or a certain packaged carbohydrate which will lull you into a multi-day, druggish dumb-time.
Some budget experts say Mr. Bloomberg made a strategic early blunder by lavishing kind words on labor.
She also lavished kind words on the old warship, saying that it represented Americans' refusal to forget the sacrifices made by its soldiers, sailors and airmen.
Mugabe himself allowed that some "foreign governments" had contributed to his lavish lifestyle; the word around Harare was that Chinese money was involved.
It is these galas to which the words "lavish" and "raucous" will almost certainly be applied.
Ms. Seldes recalled Donald Smith, the convention's producer and mastermind, taking her to see its spiritual godmother, Mabel Mercer, at the St . Regis Hotelin the 1950s and being spellbound by Mercer's perfect diction and the subtlety of feeling she lavished on each word.
I think politics has followed suit, and politicians, stuck in a sclerotic system that renders real accomplishment difficult, lavish more energy on words than on elusive deeds.
