The amenities wowed, from the restaurant and café food to, no kidding, the lavatories, in a cloister-like court, whose gracious appointments seemed to congratulate you on having bodily functions.
In fact, late in the novel, the breathless author seems to congratulate herself for "a journey that included pirates, a volcano, a great white whale, a hundred-year-old woman, a lost hero, a hidden cave, a great Appalachian bear and a timber rattlesnake — in Maine!" She shortchanges herself.
What do you mean, you can't do it?' We had an odd conversation where, at the end, he seemed to be congratulating me for saying no.
By contrast, Reitman — making a film that depicts a moral wreck and a physical wreck — seems to be congratulating himself for looking life squarely in the face, warts and all.
Held at the Washington home of the lobbyist Jack Quinn, the party was a classic Suck-Up City affair in which everyone seemed to be congratulating one another on some recent story, book deal, show or haircut (and, by the way, your boss is doing a swell job, and maybe we could do an interview).
The organizers, the surviving members of the destroyed families, the alienated youth -- he didn't seem to play favorites; he just congratulated them in front of many cameras.
Unlike Collins, whom he called to congratulate, the president doesn't seem to trust us to rise to the occasion.
Complaints from Russian politicians about the victor seem to have encouraged her supporters, with many stars congratulating her on Twitter.
In recent months, the pair seem to have become inseparable, meeting for summits and congratulating each other on their shared vision.
While women may congratulate themselves for smashing sexual ceilings, they seem to have forgotten to smash employment ceilings.
