March 8, 2010Oscar Power and Poison Phrases
Sandra Bullock won kudos with her Oscar acceptance speech that could be summarized with her comment,
- I have so many people to thank for my good fortune in this lifetime.
Her speech was what I call Gracertive.
Another winner started her acceptance speech with:
- First I would like to thank the Academy for showing it can be about the performance and not the politics.
I later read that this actor hadn’t lobbied to win, and surmised that might be what she was referring to. But not knowing that, the comment sounded dismissive of the other candidates, implying that the only reason one of them might have won would have been political. I found the wording to lack some grace, particularly considering that many viewers would not know about the politics that inform this actor’s words.
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