"I just did what I was told," remarked Minogue recently, adding that when her contract with Waterman expired a decade ago, "my world just opened up".
As I wrote last week, the cardinals gathered in Rome made telling remarks before they stopped giving interviews, citing attributes the church now needs: "a compelling communicator who wins souls through both his words and his holy bearing, and a fearless sheriff who can tackle the disarray and scandal in the Vatican".
But it was a telling remark, in more ways than one.
Yet there is a telling remark by the Kirov's wardrobe mistress in the film.
The young reformers today "do not have a compelling story to tell," remarked Lahcen Haddad, a political scientist at Rabat University in Morocco.
One year, while trailing her dogs along the mile and a half route, Ms. Roberts overheard a telling remark in the crowd.
Mr. Daley's telling remark shows how ridiculous it is for Mr. Romney to claim that agencies can now impose any rule they like with little or no presidential oversight.
When she tried to visit Picasso in his Paris studio, he famously dismissed her with the telling remark: "Madame, you will find the lingerie department on the second floor".
This telling remark forges a crucial philosophical link (and not merely an etymological one) between the poietic and poetic.
How might Senator Penrose's part humorous but telling remark ring in today's rancorous debates?
Putting aside the question of whether or not this is how Bennett really talks – and if so, he's certainly more eloquent in private than he is in public – this is a telling remark, and it's unfortunate that Bennett doesn't explain why a strong federal role would be merited here and not elsewhere.
