Sentences with phrase «pay compliment»

Pay him a compliment.

Whether you pay a compliment, throw out some trivia, or ask a question, it's important to be engaging.

I want to pay you a compliment.

Each time the leader stops, students must turn around and pay a compliment to the next person in line.

Those directors will be pacing in the lobby as you leave the theater, and if you pay them a compliment, they will be the most grateful humans you've ever seen.

As a result, you should pay her a compliment occasionally, but not too often.

Be polite and friendly in your opening message, pay a compliment if you like but don't go overboard, and think of something interesting to ask or tell them that will encourage them to reply.

Do you have a voice that Simon Cowell would pay a compliment to?

It could be as simple as taking the time to pay yourself a compliment when you wake up in the morning (try a positive sticky - note on the mirror in your bedroom), or saying «no» to happy hour plans with friends so you can unwind with a book and glass of wine on your couch.

Better still, is it because your loved ones always pay you a compliment when you are dressed in clothing of that shade?

Michelle saw her from behind and decided to approach her to pay her a compliment.

You can probably deduce what I'm talking about when I say statement coat: A coat in a bold color, or a unique cut, a garment that makes people stop you on the street to pay you a compliment.

Police officers see other rank soldiers and demand them to pay compliment which is not entitled and this must be said once and for all.

Sure, Bettman tried to pay a compliment, but the implication didn't go over well.

Plus, the Bluefish team pay him a compliment.

Even while criticizing Fearless Girl, Sallie Krawcheck paid a compliment to State Street's campaign: «A publicity stunt is good,» she wrote.

In fact, taken to its extreme, paying a compliment is a «legitimate» opportunity to lie, which is something that people subconsciously tend to enjoy doing from time to time.

Yet today, that same thesis is liable to provoke a firestorm as intense as when Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas started paying compliments to such extremist and radical notions as Aristotelian natural law theory.

True, when a child pays you a compliment, you know it is heartfelt as they always say it like it is (even when you do not want to hear it!).

«I open up to people I feel I can trust,» McEnroe told Firestone, in effect paying him a compliment.

«You have to pay compliments to Swansea — they stood deep in the first half and were good defensively.

Maldonado's return has been unsurprisingly well received in F1, with Lewis Hamilton in particular paying compliments to Pastor on his Twitter account.

The ex-minister was forced to defend herself after she was accused of being patronising to the Italian team by saying she was paying them a compliment.

The second we are paid a compliment, we feel like we have to give one in return.

Paying compliments is a great way to boost your lover's self - esteem and make them feel special but also to create variety and spontaneity in your relationship with the element of surprise.

Also some people might not pay compliments but eye contact will let you know when a man feels envious of your powerful body and wants to imitate it or a woman finds you attractive.

When was the last time someone, that you knew or a stranger, paid you a compliment?

And he almost never paid me a compliment.

So if you want to surprise a Ukrainian woman be honest, be sincere and don't hesitate to pay compliments.

Allow him to book a table, open doors, pay you compliments, pay for the meal etc; give him control of the first date!

In a funny first message, the online dater shows interest in Michaela's pictures, pays a compliment to her dog, asks a solid question, and makes a flirtatious suggestion.

Penn's serious - mindedness pays a compliment to the audience.

Not surprisingly, she marries the first guy who pays her a compliment.

The good news is the director is Adrian Lyne who is great with actresses: see Fatal Attraction & Unfaithful Just Jared Jonathan Groff dies of happiness when Beyoncé pays him a compliment

Freundlich and Duchovny combine their soporific superpowers on a feature - length yakker long on ancillary anecdotes and eager to pay compliments, at wet length, to the stupende - awsome - riffic cast; Freundlich will also stop the stream to trainspot random people («Hey, wait, that's my trainer!»)

Several bystanders walked over to pay compliments as we parked for photography.

And that was the closest my father ever got to paying me a compliment.

Well, this boss is paying you compliments, and you are about to smash him in the nose because of his interruptions and constant chatter about the same job you are already doing.

I was paying a compliment to top notch scientists who freely admit to the complexity of the issue.

I thought you were paying a compliment to people who see technology as a threat and not a tool.

After sweeping seven states on Super Tuesday, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump paid a compliment to the target of much conservative vitriol this election cycle: Planned Parenthood.

As part of my research I carefully charted the amount of time couples spent fighting versus interacting positively — touching, smiling, paying compliments, laughing, etc..

Partners who respond enthusiastically to each other's successes — asking questions, paying compliments, and cheering each other on — report greater relationship satisfaction over time, says Shelly Gable, a researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

But if we don't accept the compliment, we are implying (even though we'd be mortified to think so) that the person paying the compliment is an idiot, a liar, or gilding the lily.

Not exact matches

To stay at a job where the boss is trying to keep you down, will eventually replace you, will pay you only enough for you to survive, will rotate between compliments and insults so you stay like a fish caught on the bait as he reels you in.

Like the Italians who used to declare, «At least Mussolini made the trains run on time,» this CEO's half - hearted attempts at paying someone a compliment were so feeble that it would have been better if she'd said nothing at all.

In a word, it's «intuitive» — which is about the highest compliment one can pay a product or service, whatever it may be.

«I paid Panama a great compliment,» he explained.

Thomas Gilby once said of Aquinas that he paid things, in the act of rendering them in their complexity, «the compliment of attempting to do so without breaking into poetry.»

Mr. Hershman was paying an unintended compliment.