• Three goals followed before a late penalty for Greece made the scoreline more respectable but flattering.

    FORBES: Mario, Mario Can You Show Us Your Goals

  • But why is it still so hard to find a running jacket that adequately covers one's bum but remains flattering and has, in addition, various-sized pockets (tiny for keys, large for dog leads, gloves, etc.) and subtle yet stylish branding and reflective stripes?

    WSJ: Tina Gaudoin on Style: Will the Runway Ever Meet the Road?

  • Flattering, but since I had no clue what I was doing, I was pretty uptight about the whole thing.

    FORBES: Faking It

  • Jerome had an opportunity to give the scoreline a rather flattering look but he shanked embarrassingly wide with his left foot and remains without a goal at St Andrews this season.

    BBC: Birmingham 3-0 Middlesbrough

  • Captain Leigh Davies and Finau crossed to give a rather flattering final score but nonetheless a deserved victory.

    BBC: Llanelli (10) 32

  • All this is flattering enough, but the cerebral Mr Hatsopoulos is clearly some way from changing capitalism as we know it.

    ECONOMIST: Spinning it out at Thermo Electron

  • "It was flattering at first, but that's how I used to pay the bills, " says Katz.

    CNN: Books on tape, on the Web

  • Errico is bathed in flattering golden lighting, but her passion for Giorgio seems subdued in comparison to Kuhn's savage intensity.

    WSJ: Review: Intense revival of Sondheim's 'Passion'

  • But there are also less-flattering factors that hold down Nielsen's goal totals.

    WSJ: Long Island's Hired Gun

  • This is funny and flattering all at once, but it also underscores how new media has changed old media, and how the emerging social web is changing the once-autonomous search-based internet.

    FORBES: Games Were Social Media Before It Was Cool

  • The final score wasn't flattering for the Barbarians, but the assembled players from around the world, including Samu Manoa and Takudzwa Ngwenya of the U.S., helped entertain the 28, 643 fans at the Hong Kong Stadium.

    WSJ: British and Irish Lions Beat Barbarians in Hong Kong

  • Last year's bubble skirts might have looked great on you, but your customers may not have found them so flattering.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Mild fame may have patronized these folks, but the movie pays them a comic homage that feels flattering, fast-witted, and true.

    NEWYORKER: American Splendor

  • England kept on bludgeoning away at New Zealand but they lacked the cutting edge of the Baby Blacks, who gave the scoreboard a flattering look with two late tries.

    BBC: England U20 3-38 NZ U20

  • There are many who have criticised me for being what they call a poster girl for the army - very flattering to be seen as a poster girl for anything at this time of life - but I think the truth is I am very fond of the army, because I always thought of it as my father's army.

    BBC: Aung San Suu Kyi tells of fondness for Burma army

  • The style-philes have a difficult time picking just one or two of 2009's trends that they loved, but nearly everyone can agree that the asymmetrical dress was one of the best, if only because it was flattering on nearly everyone.

    CNN: The good and bad of 2009 celebrity style

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