Sentences with phrase «faint praise at»

Not exact matches

He had faint praise for Miliband at Labour's «we love business» talk but shadow work and pensions secretary had no such luck

At the same time, the praise for CER should only be faint.

At the risk of damning the Tucson with faint praise, it rides and handles competently without being particularly good or bad in any one area.

The iPad Pro is the best tablet ever, but at a time the entire market is on the decline, that seems like faint praise.

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

That boast is now the title of his first much - deserved museum retrospective, at the Bronx Museum, but it's faint praise for his pictorial gifts.

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

«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?

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-

The iPad Pro is the best tablet ever, but at a time the entire market is on the decline, that seems like faint praise.

But their loyalty «fades as fast as Zellers aprons» in the words of Peter Newman as he at once recognized and damned a brand with faint praise.