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One day, if the stars are aligned and you’ve worked hard to do the right thing, you, too, might be lucky enough to receive a lovely compliment like the one Nancy Phelan, of Baraboo, Wisconsin ...
Feel free to compliment strangers. In Bohns’ research, students on a college campus were told to approach a stranger of the same gender and compliment them—about, for example, their nice shirt.
A video of a British woman giving mental health advice to her granddaughter has become an unlikely viral sensation on TikTok. Christina Symes, 30, an artist who resides in the English seaside town ...
In his review of the 1983 Royal Court production of the play, The Guardian critic Michael Billington stated that he was convinced that Top Girls "is the best British play ever from a woman dramatist. That is not meant to be patronising". [19] He later in 1997 included the play in his list of the "10 best British plays of the [20th] Century". [20]
Complimentary language is a speech act that caters to positive face needs. Positive face, according to Brown and Levinson, is "the positive consistent self-image or 'personality' (crucially including the desire that this self-image be appreciated and approved of) claimed by interactions". [1]
The term bombshell is a forerunner to the term "sex symbol" used to describe popular women regarded as very attractive. [1] [2] The Online Etymology Dictionary by Douglas Harper attests the usage of the term in this meaning since 1942. Bombshell has a longer history in its other, more general figurative meaning of a "shattering or devastating ...
English rose is a description, associated with English culture, that may be applied to a naturally beautiful woman or girl who is from or is associated with England. The description has a cultural reference to the national flower of England, the rose , [ 1 ] and to its long tradition within English symbolism .
A TikTok video posted by @lisamc40 shows a clip of Swift as a toddler, saying the phrase you’ll still hear her say today after receiving a compliment: “Thank you,” with a slight pause ...