Sentences with phrase «faint praise art»

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

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Yet, he comes a-cropper in his attempt to follow his old pal Adam McKay on to the battlefield of Serious Film Art, and try as he might to emulate its beats and its tone, this is no The Big Short (faint praise, we realise).
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.
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