Sentences with phrase «called backhanded compliments»

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

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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.»

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.

To call a movie «airy» and «slight» is a backhanded compliment at best, but in reference to such an inconsequential and inconsistent piece, «not bad» is as much of an endorsement as I can give it.

Instead of a backhanded compliment, call it backhanded criticism: You'll want more of «Marjorie Prime.»