Sentences with phrase «damning it with»

Partly it feels like being damned with faint praise, as when people say Sylvia Plath was a «great woman poet.»

Calling CBS's Undercover Boss one of reality television's better offerings may seem like damning with faint praise, but in its first season, the show managed to be surprisingly entertaining and even thoughtful, rarely descending into the kind of freak - show antics that prop up most other reality series.

Damning with faint praise, they say they «trust this management team... about as much as any large bank.»

He said the comments were «damned with faint praise.»

There is something wrong and damning with heresy, apostasy and unbelief.

He who has once seen me can never forget me: he must either damn himself with me or save me with himself.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation Edited by Hans J. Hillerbrand; Four volumes Oxford University Press, 1,977 pages, $ 45 It's a reviewer's cliche, and a way of damning with faint praise, to say of a book that no academic library can afford to be without it.

Are they now damned with blindness?

In case it seems like I'm damning them with faint praise, consider that I've spent the past two weeks in class redefining my relationship with butter.

Shorey then turned his attention towards Joleon Lescott and claimed that he thinks the Everton player «did quite well» — surely damning him with faint praise!

Erick Aybar was a little better, but that's damning with faint praise.

Whilst that might be damning him with faint praise (the «best of a bad bunch», and all that) after a poor showing by Liverpool, there is no denying that he has settled instantly as the indispensable heart of the Reds» midfield.

I think I'll file this under «damned with faint praise.»

But facile comparisons aside, the prime minister is damning himself with his own words here.

While damning him with faint praise as «fun» and a «likeable person» today, he has delivered the man he once backed to be prime minister a hammer blow.

Write and article, damn with faint page and then nothing!

There's quite a difference when director Oliver Stone actually gives a damn with a movie, and you can tell with Snowden that he is passionate about making a compelling and accessible movie for American audiences to understand why they should be angry.

I believe this is called «damning with faint praise.»

(Note: That definitely should not be interpreted as damning with faint praise.)

(This is probably damning with faint praise).

That might seem like damning it with faint praise, but Imagine That is a relatively well written, decent little story that is not — as the trailer might have suggested — the Eddie Murphy version of Bedtime Stories.

Fall film festival reviews for Tom Hooper's transgender true story were so - so, with critics damning it with faint praise, calling it «well - meaning» and «tasteful.»

The film wears its histrionics like a badge of honour and be damned with anyone who doesn't like it.

Saying that Captain Haddock didn't sound like Gollum feels a bit like damning with faint praise, but I was too distracted by the idea that the Captain is Scottish -LRB-?)

Talk about damning with faint praise eh?

I suppose it's sort of damning with faint praise in a way, but it's remarkable that some composers seem to emerge from the production line formerly known as Media Ventures as excellent film composers in their own right who go on to bigger and better things.

It's personally my second favorite of the franchise, second only to The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, but it's hardly without problems, so perhaps I'm slightly damning with faint praise.

And yet, despite all this, Independence Day: Resurgence still emerges as one of the better blockbusters of this summer, and that's only halfway damning with faint praise.

Granted, Coco is probably the second best project Pixar's done in this fallow period for the studio, but a film having the flaws of Coco being one of the better films of the period is a strong case of damning with faint praise.

Arguments that some kids aren't «college material» and damning them with low expectations are no longer valid or acceptable.

Build quality is good overall, but not without a little old - school sketchiness around the edges, such as door jambs that misted up after rainfall and an ashtray in the center console damned with an action so crappy, it would have shamed a Chinese toymaker in the 1970s.

Damning with faint praise?

While other car - makers plaster garish green or bright blue badging on their hybrids, or damn them with bizarre futuristic styling, Land Rover would rather you not notice its latest Range Rover plug - in.

It's definitely the best - looking minivan on the market, and no, I'm not damning it with faint praise — I'm saying Chrysler managed to actually make it look interesting.

Front seats, though not particularly good, are better than the Cavalier's, but that's damning them with faint praise.

But it looks better in person — which might sound like damning it with faint praise, but it's true.

Audio quality from the bottom - mounted stereo speakers is (at the risk of damning with faint praise) «pretty good for a laptop.»

Given Konami's recent track record, Metal Gear Survive might exceed my expectations, which is about as damning with faint praise as you can get.

Saying these three COD games are the best first - person shooters for the Wii would be damning them with faint praise; they are, in fact, most of Wii's FPS library.

EB Games — Shadows of the Damned with bonus Shadows of the Damned DLC Soundtrack and poster (PS3, Xbox 360 — $ 108)

High Moon's Transformers games, whilst scaling far greater heights than most licensed properties in this industry (which isn't terribly difficult to be honest), have always been damned with the faint praise of solid - yet - unspectacular.

It would be presumptuous of me to damn with faint praise art criticism of the last twenty years, so I won't even try.

And even if it's true that this art is of interest, isn't «interesting» — in the case of painting — damning it with faint praise?

It's an operation dedicated to ancient Greek art, and to describe its exhibits as «museum quality» is to damn with faint praise: we'd have to be talking about quite some museum.

Editor — I want to thank Kenneth Baker for damning with faint praise Matthew Barney's petrochemical mishmash at SFMOMA.

I'm interested in the cosmic ray / albedo thesis but don't see much evidence to support it and would not at all be surprised to find that the actual coupling of solar cycles to climate cycles might well be from some other connection (be it magnetic, energetic particles, gravity waves or pixie dust; — RRB - It is an interesting thesis that is at least as well support as AGW (damning with faint praise; --RRB-

For lack of a better description it's like «damning with faint praise».

Damning with faint praise, Barber says today, after the latest research: «On the basis of the modeling that we have done, the model predictions suggest that this is not a method that will reduce atmospheric co2 very much, even if you did it on a massive scale.»

And be damned with El Nino and La Nina methods.

I suppose I can't complain about the «damning with faint praise» tone you have taken, as that is my general policy with most things I develop an opinion on.