Sentences with phrase «faint praise though»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Front seats, though not particularly good, are better than the Cavalier's, but that's damning them with faint praise.

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.