Sentences with phrase «faint praise for»

Even though you do not know how increasing CO2 or warming will change the hydrologic cycle, and even though you make elementary errors in statistics and probability, and even though I basically have faint praise for your csalt model (i.e. it hasn't been tested or disconfirmed by out of sample data), I stipulate that you know more of just about all of physics than I do.

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.

It sounds like faint praise for sure but «The Sitter» could have been much worse.

Sea 2 could've been worse, but that's faint praise for poorly executed sequel.

Variety also has faint praise for the «shrewd comic instincts» of the film which save an «uneven, excessively quirky but ultimately ingratiating story.»

There may be no more unexpected (or damning) faint praise for David Ayer's new movie Bright than this: It made me wish I was watching «Suicide Squad» instead.

But the results are faint praise for U.S. school systems.

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

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The poetry («give them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit»), the theology, the call for social justice and the Christological implications — a thousand sermons live in these verses, a million possible reflections.

«The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the prisoners; to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; to provide for those who mourn in Zion — to give them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit.

Many liberation theologians and democratic socialists damn King with faint praise as they continue to pursue those goals for which he gave his life: peace, the empowerment of the poor and the Third World, and the elimination of racism.

The opinionated NBC golf analyst damned JT's otherworldly accomplishment with faint praise when he told GolfChannel.com's Ryan Lavner that 63 was «a heck of a score» — wait for it — «even if it was the Milwaukee Open.»

On the political value scale, for Cuomo this ranks somewhere between faint praise and catching crabs from a hooker.

Paladino offered faint praise to the «failed» attorney general for investigating a massive pay - to - play scandal under Hevesi, who admitted Thursday to pocketing $ 1 million in gifts for himself and cronies.

It may sound like faint praise but it's well - lit, something that can't be said for so many scary movies, and Roberts tries to stage the film's key sequences with an artful eye.

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.»

It is no faint praise to say that Nicole Holofcener is eligible for the mantle of «the female Richard Linklater» due to the breezy but affective nature of her world - building.

Faint praise, for sure, but it's a step above how this film was taking shape back when Scott Charles Stewart (Legion, Priest) was directing.

Faint praise, for sure, but there's a dynamism and a clip here that are missing in the lumbering 1960 original.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The only praise he had for Ackman's investing acumen was faint indeed.