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"He was trying to be proper and go through his management," he said, but "he was too nice about it, because he's a gentleman; he didn't get nasty about the problem".
I was delighted by Miles Bredin's life of James Bruce, The Pale Abyssinian (HarperCollins), but since Mr Bredin is my godson I'd better not say anything too nice about it.
But the visit has been tarnished by fierce criticism that Colonel Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, has refused to address the issue of human rights abuses in his country and that President Nicolas Sarkozy has been too nice about it.
Especially if you've been too nice about it!
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Bizarrely, a notable victim of the latest in-fighting, Jaswant Singh, a former BJP foreign minister, was sacked for the very offence that did for Mr Advani: being too nice about Pakistan's founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
If this last section falters here and there (Mrs. Vining is a little too "nice" about thanking friends), by now the reader has become so fond of the author that criticism falls away before the shining substance of a heart and mind.
I know, I'm just too nice about this, have been all along.
Doesn't sound too nice, does it?
" Be nice about it, too!
If you find someone doesn't like you, then confront them and be nice about it, too.
But be nice about it and don't be too bossy.
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