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Provided by the compucert perorate \PUR-uh-rayt\, intransitive verb:
- To conclude or sum up a long discourse.
- To speak or expound at length; to declaim.
Perorate comes from Latin perorare "to speak at length or to the end," from per-, "through, throughout," + orare, "to speak."
friendly review - A positive review you give to a movie, book, TV series or CD that you don't like but which a friend has recommended to you, usually because you don't want to hurt their feelings.
Tom: What did you think?
Rod: I hated it.
Tom: Oh boy, he loves that movie. What did you tell him?
Rod: I told him it was great.
Tom: You gave it a friendly review, huh?
Rod: Yeah, you know what he’s like.
Trivia
Which are South America’s only two landlocked countries?
- Bolivia and Paraguay.
Today in History:
1812 Overture: Tchaikovsky's classic overture debuted in Moscow, commemorating Russia's defense against Napoleon (1880; Gregorian date) - RAF: UK prime minister Winston Churchill saluted his country's air force with the statement, ''Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" (1940)
- Prague Spring: brief period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia ended when the country was invaded by Warsaw Pact troops and tanks (1968)
- Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901): 23rd POTUS; Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi (1944-1991) was also born on this date
- Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968): poet and translator; other writers born on this date include Edgar Guest (1881-1959) and Walter Bernstein (90)
Robert Plant (61): rock singer/songwriter, multiple Grammy Award-winner and possiible viking zombie; also, musicians Jack Teagarden (1905-1964), Isaac Hayes (1942-2008), Jimmy Pankow (62), John Hiatt, Doug Fieger and Rudy Gatlin (all 57), KRS-One (44), Fred Durst (39) and Monique Powell (34) - Amy Adams (35): actor, Enchanted, Julie and Julia; actors Peter Horton (56), Joan Allen (53), James Marsters (47) and Jonathan Ke Quan (38) also have a birthday today
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