Sentences with phrase «effusive man»

Instead, the effusive man - to - man admiration and passionate praise were a convention of the time, especially from an inferior to a man of high birth, and especially if he's paying you a groat or two to say so.

For that status, we turn to the always - elusive but oft - effusive man - with - a-plan, County Executive Mike Hein.

Lincoln was sociable, but private; he was not an effusive man.

Not exact matches

It's only delusion when United believe they are «title rivals» with city or when the ever effusive Pochettino arrogantly says Tottenham's «ambition» is the league or champions league and not in the domestic cups (man hasn't won a pin but at Wembley a beggar surely has a choice).

Lucas Leiva, Emre Can, Alberto Moreno and Adam Lallana are among the players who are thriving under Klopp, whose tactile man - management style is characterised by effusive bear hugs.

The New York Times, back when it knew how to write great headlines, was even more effusive: «Lights All Askew in the Heavens / Men of Science More or Less Agog Over Results of Eclipse Observations / Einstein's Theory Triumphs.»

While reviews out of Telluride have been mixed, we're not so worried, mostly because that was the same reception that greeted «Birth» and moreover, our man on the ground was effusive in his praise.

Men dominate the first scene of Green, in which journalist Sebastian (Lawrence Michael Levine) and his friend (Alex Ross Perry) pompously extol the virtues of Philip Roth, engaging in a game of one - upmanship to see who can concoct the most effusive praise.

The stories my mother told me weren't the ones I wanted to hear, stories about the man she said was my father, stories that seemed to come not just from her but upon her, unguarded and effusive, or as we say in Jamaica, «Mouth open, story fly out.»

An older woman — at least 70 — and a 20 - something man embraced after an effusive «Good morning!»

It reminds me of Soviet science books from the Stalin era, which often had an effusive acknowledgement to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin in the preface, which was then followed by quite good science that had nothing to do with these men and sometimes contradicted their pontifications.»

John Krasinski, the director and the male lead of the film, responded to Pratt's effusive praise on Twitter with, «Oh man... who ARE you @prattprattpratt???... nicest guy ever, that's who!».