Sentences with phrase «faint damnation»
«Indeed controversial» is academic language; but to politicians, this sounds like «praising with faint damnation» — a politician is apt to assume «is indeed controversial» means «is a hot research area» rather than «was asserted in one paper that used at best controversial methods to reach its claimed conclusion» — eh?
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It's so sweet of you to praise me with faint damnation, sweet boy!
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Don't interpret that as damnation by faint praise, however.
I hope you don't mind me saying, it seems like damnation by faint praise to just say that his preso makes you go «wow» because it would sure be a big deal if it was true, but then you immediately beg off any responsibility for evaluating the quality of his reasoning.