Children do not benefit from routine empty praise, like the cries of "Good job!" that ring out over American playgrounds.
The 17-year-old Harrold's uneven bars routine has attracted praise for her trademark Zuchold-Schleudern element which earned her 14.600 points in qualifying.
After the host gave a routine round of praise, the first question from the audience asked Jia, pointedly, "Was the decision to use movie stars made with the market in mind?" Another questioner asked if Jia had avoided harder-hitting stories of truly abject poverty because he wouldn't get them approved.
All four competitors had the chance to perform their freestyle "showstopping" dance, with Flack and Kovalev's ambitious and theatrical routine winning high praise from the judging panel.
"We are not New Zealand, we won the World Cup final," Brad Haddin declared on arrival in England last year – an abrasive party pooper routine in response to praise for McCullum's tourists who had recently enchanted the English public during their pre-Ashes series.
On a break from rehearsing Mr. Quinn's Broadway show "Colin Quinn Long Story Short," a 75-minute monologue about the downfall of civilizations from Greece to Britain to — gulp — America, Mr. Seinfeld was praising a routine from an earlier incarnation of the show, in which Mr. Quinn uses the metaphor of a pizza parlor to illustrate the difference between colonialism and imperialism.
I don't need it -- call me the chairwoman of a fan club for "Praising the Routine" inc.
By now, the stout defense and the effusive praise have become almost routine.
The records show that from the start of his service career Clark's superior officers conferred on him the most extravagant praise, typically noting in his routine fitness reports that he was an officer of "unlimited" potential.
She rose from anonymity and domestic routine to be at the center of praise from democratizing forces and insults from the official press.
