Sentences with phrase «intended as a compliment»

The lesson is that it's OK to say that C&C is the religious version of The Nation, if you intend it as a compliment.

Brown clearly intends this as a compliment to women.

Actually intended as a compliment, the reference required more context, as follows:

This was intended as a compliment — but was not taken as such.

She did not intend it as a compliment, but I wasn't insulted.

I think a PC game can be «console - y» and it's intended as a compliment, but I get in trouble for saying it.»

He didn't intend it as a compliment.

Bart R I realize that flattery is sometimes intended as a compliment.

The ABA's lawyers had argued that the term was intended as a compliment, used to describe «a prominent, highly successful lawyer, widely known and sought after for his effectiveness as a problem - solver and trouble - shooter in connection with politically sensitive issues and cases.»

Not exact matches

Although it's intended to be styled like in the pictures, I've been wearing it as an off - the - shoulder sweater, and always receive compliments when I wear it that way!!

I thank him for the compliment, though I feel that his analysis is as misguided as it is ideologically driven and intended to divide our teaching staff into those who should be valued and retained and those who should be fired to clear the way for his corporate conception of progress.

Of course, that's not intended as a backhanded compliment.