Sentences with phrase «faint praise in»

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.

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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.

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.

He even waited until the death of his mentor, the biblical scholar William Robertson Smith, to introduce into his most famous work, The Golden Bough, a new section that subtly damned the Bible with faint praise, even though Frazer had never learned the languages that would have enabled him to read the Bible in the original.

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Cuomo, with faint praise from the Freeman, barely broke 30 percent in Ulster that year.

Mr Reid damned the Conservative party leader with faint praise, saying in «presentational terms» he is doing well, «especially by the standards of his predecessors».

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.

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).

While faint praise, it should be said that this does feel like a case of colorblind (and genderblind) casting; nothing about his character specifies his race, and Roberts» character was a man in the original film.

Unlike Tim Burton's take on Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella is a genuinely colorful, and never drab, effort; faint praise though it may be, this film is vastly more tolerable.

He praises our program Siskel & Ebert with faint damns (we are the best of a bad lot, I am a jolly chap, etc.) and then says, «I simply don't want people to think that what they have to do on TV is what I'm supposed to do in print:» But that is not the real problem facing Corliss, who might better have asked why what he has to do in Time is what he's supposed to do in print.

In spite of the faint praise with which it has generally been greeted, The Weather Man struck me as an insightful exploration of dissatisfaction despite the relative comfort of our modern existence.

Since then they have primarily wallowed in mediocrity, although I must admit with very faint praise, that «Hall Pass» is one of their better movies in a while.

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

Although even I, a devoted horror fan, recognize the faint praise of championing any film as ascendent in such a flawed sub-genre as slasher movies.

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.

So to say that Blade Runner 2049 — which opens Friday in Bay Area theaters — is very, very good, without quite being a masterpiece, is not faint praise.

If that sounds a little damning in faint praise, then bear in mind that the BMW is pretty much the pick of the executive class when it comes to dynamics.

That's no faint praise, as the S - Class can hold its own against the best driving environments you'd care to mention, and we include ultra-luxury Rolls - Royce in that as well.

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.

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

It feels roughly as responsive and accurate as it did in the original Dance Central, which may sound like faint praise, but without the strength of the game's motion - recognition and its ability to provide you meaningful feedback in the moment about what you need to adjust in order to really kill it, the rest of the package would be meaningless.

That might sound like faint praise, but with the change - up in mechanics, the developer's strengths shine through brighter than they have in a while.

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.

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.

This praise may sound faint, but in the context of the Turner Prize's recent history, that is about as good as it gets.

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?

«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-

There is «damn by faint praise» and Dr. Curry is engaging in «validating by faint criticism» by ignoring politically corrupt forces and limiting the discussion to narrow topics like «The Pause» or using terms such a «advocacy» rather than spelling out exactly what kind of advocacy we all know she means.

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.

But even Krugman acknowledges in his piece that this «is actually faint praise.»

There's no question that was true in 2013, and that's not meant to damn it with 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.