Sentences with phrase «3rd-most backhand»

As my Inc.com colleague Geoffrey James points out, that's pretty clearly a backhand slap at Trump.

The best it got for her, she explained, was when after she had done some work for partner Ward Woods, he managed to give her a backhanded compliment at the year - end review meeting.

She weaved in on twice gold medal winner Shannon Szabados, moved to her left with a backhand that drew the Canadian goaltender toward her and then pulled the puck to her forehand and slid it in behind her.

Anything you follow up with in this conversation is guaranteed to be met with eye rolls or more backhanded compliments.

Hyperloop Tech's rhetoric may even show, albeit in a backhanded way, that it takes HTT seriously as a long - term competitor.

If you're not familiar with responses like this, they're called backhanded compliments.

In person, they give backhanded compliments and are rude to the team.

But home tickets for Canadian NHL teams are sold on the secondary market for substantially higher prices than primary listings, according to a post last year on The Score's Backhand Shelf blog.

You're unlikely to spend July returning backhands at Wimbledon, but you're still going to sweat.

She, no surprise, responded with a backhanded burn: «You're cute when you're desperate for information.»

While it probably wouldn't change Sessions» mind on the issue, the CBO found that in an oddly backhanded way, requiring women to register for the draft would actually save the government tens of millions of dollars in the years ahead.

However, it's worth some reflection to make sure you aren't dishing out too many backhanded compliments.

«Business is business,» he says, before segueing off into what is at best a backhanded compliment and at worst a direct shot at his rival.

«You obviously hate to say that, because there are other ways that you'd rather get your work, but it was a backhanded blessing to the construction industry,» says Keith Plowman, who runs a landscaping company and is vice-president of the Fort McMurray Construction Association.

«It's sort of a backhanded compliment.»

In a way, though, making it illegal to help our members, and then blaming us when we don't, is a backhanded compliment to the unions.

For some analysts, the latest crackdown is a backhanded attempt at controlling capital flight.

Posner offers religious conservatives a backhanded compliment, although most readers are likely to miss it.

If a christian disagrees, or is disgusted by something, spew hatred, but do it in a backhanded way, just in case there IS a god, maybe he won't notice how much you hate his creations.

He meant this as a compliment, I was sure, even with the backhanded swipe at my faith, and I was glad to accept it as such.

Not from backhanded internet sites, which is clearly where you are pulling your information.

I am pointing out that citizens of the Middle East have legitimate grievances against western interference as it so often has been backhanded and resulted in bloodshed.

Sir Winston Churchill gave democracy a backhanded compliment when he famously called it «the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.»

But such praise seems grudging, even backhanded, in light of their severe criticism.

She uses her outspoken emotions and backhanded comments to bend others into submission.

I will begin with a backhanded compliment, thanking you for making it easy for bloggers like me to issue one - way rants against the people we don't like while maintaining the appearance of a conversation.

It is eternal and will outlast any backhanded comment.

i completely agree... i may yell at times, but i never strike my kids... i was raised in a home where the backhand was king, i rose above but i always said i would never lay a hand on my children in anger!

@dude: Your backhanded insults are condescending enough.

Again, that's more a backhanded compliment than an indictment to a Lutheran.

You can either keep the retaliation cycle going and continue to lash out at your spouse with a verbal backhand, or you can break the cycle and choose to be the one to take a blow.

The backhand was not a blow to injure, but to insult, humiliate, degrade.

By turning the cheek, the servant makes it impossible for the master to use the backhand again: his nose is in the way.

Masters backhanded slaves; husbands, wives; parents, children; Romans, Jews.

The court's ruling was a backhanded decision that favored the theater circuit but added that if the city were to improve its system, such cases might be decided in its favor in the future.

You preach to us against backhanded compliments yet you've given one yourself.

His backhanded «aid» is nothing more than a public relations scam.

People intend to give a genuine compliment, however backhanded or sexist it comes across.

It is no consolation (and surely a backhanded compliment) that Richard Rorty claimed that had he emigrated to the U.S., the «schwarzwald redneck» Heidegger would have found sympathetic ears amongst the agrarians.

Overall, I can not stop anyone who tells their children, along with a backhand to the face, that they will go to heII for being bad.

It all seemed rather backhanded and dishonest to me, though they may in fact be very sincere.

To Muhammad, in regards to your comment about Arabs and coptics in Egypt... that is such a backhanded ignorant comment.

If you are insulted with a backhand to the face, you are not to seek retribution.

Such a backhanded compliment pays homage to the newfound professionalism of CCM, as compared to the atrocious production standards that marked the music for its first two decades.

In a meta gesture, and as a backhanded thank - you, the premier had one character descend into paranoia and spout ripped - from - the - fanfic theories, even heading a group of true believers («I believe in Sherlock Holmes»).

Is that a backhanded way of calling President Obama a passionate socialist that nobody is making a bid deal of.

Taxonomists are famous for the backhanded compliment when they name stuff.

Is this the kind of backhanded «pray for him» sentiments that Christians often give to people of other religions?

people embarrassed by their prejudices often give backhanded compliments - «no, they can't be leaders, but we value their advice.»

«My friend once gave me the most backhanded compliment.