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But the only way the public has of relating to these items is to gasp at them and applaud them, swoon over them and deplore them, laugh at them and compare them--and it's not even the clothes that evoke these responses, it's their likenesses transmitted by the media.
We can all think of books that we read as reviewers (because we have to), and whose achievement and message we applaud but that we'd never urge our friends to take the time to read themselves.
Then, moving in to eat his cake, he asks us to applaud their modesty.
Critics applaud Sedaris' tendency to mock both himself (the title essay is about his stint at a nudist camp) and others (he titles a piece about people who picked him up hitchhiking "Planet of the Apes").
Critics applaud Rep.