Compared to Bruno's assessment of Gordon Brown - "the guy needs a total makeover" - the bespectacled Kevin Rudd got a glowing appraisal.

But there they were, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Gov. George E. Pataki, sharing a Manhattan dais last week, offering glowing appraisals of each other.

In a telephone interview from his home near the seminary's 200-acre campus, Dr. Dilday said he was caught off guard because the board's executive committee had given him a glowing appraisal one day earlier.

After several months, Feys sent Löwenbruck glowing appraisals of these candidates.

"Let's just say it was not a glowing appraisal," said Neil S. Newhouse, Mr. Rowland's pollster since 1984.

Several glowing appraisals of Lee's tenure as college president have survived, depicting the dignity and respect he commanded among all.

Mr. Levinson is not alone in his glowing appraisal of Miss Hershey's screen presence.

In recent seasons the San Francisco troupe has won glowing appraisals for its international roster of star dancers and choreographers at tour stops from Los Angeles to London.

Griffin also gave a glowing appraisal of Scalzi's vocals, saying in summation, "Frankly, he's never sounded better."

Boston Globe architecture columnist Robert Campbell wrote a glowing appraisal of the building on April 25, 2004.