Sentences with phrase «backhanded compliments when»

Throughout the game, he'll appraise you for collecting gems, inform you on strange facts about yarn, and backhanded compliments when you receive less than the highest ranking for a single level.

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.»

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

Jonathon Rosenbaum paid the legendary megaton bomb Sextette the ultimate backhanded compliment when he called it «the most chivalrous film ever made,» citing its willful obliviousness to the incongruous spectacle of the world's men falling over themselves to sleep with a then - octogenarian Mae West.

is always useful as a backhanded compliment when you can't think of anything encouraging to say about the art itself.

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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.

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.

When I wore this, I did get one of those backhanded compliments for wearing «white» jeans in winter.

When someone tells you, «Your heart was in the right place», or «You meant well», it's one of those backhanded compliments where you can rest assured that what this person's really trying to say is, «You screwed up».