Sentences with phrase «is faint praise»

This top - of - the - range, four - door Sahara wagon is much better - behaved on the road than any of its predecessors, but this is faint praise.

Of course, this is all faint praise as far as it goes.

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.

Although I understand «merely average» is faint praise.

Placing it above Phantom Menace and The Mummy is faint praise indeed.

This is faint praise indeed, but American Wedding is a definite improvement over the lame American Pie 2.

Coquelin 5 Our best midfielder — but considering he is the only one left that is faint praise indeed

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

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

If you think that's faint praise, you don't know me very well.

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.

Unusually, shots taken indoors are a little better, but that's faint praise.

It's faint praise indeed, but it's also a proprietary warning (from a public broadcaster?)

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.

That's faint praise, to be sure.

Not exact matches

Partly it feels like being damned with faint praise, as when people say Sylvia Plath was a «great woman poet.»

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.

He said the comments were «damned with faint praise.»

«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.

It's so sweet of you to praise me with faint damnation, sweet boy!

(2) St. Augustine flatly stated that marriage is a sin and St. Paul damned marriage with faint praise, remarking that to marry was only better than to burn (1 cor.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation Edited by Hans J. Hillerbrand; Four volumes Oxford University Press, 1,977 pages, $ 45 It's a reviewer's cliche, and a way of damning with faint praise, to say of a book that no academic library can afford to be without it.

In case it seems like I'm damning them with faint praise, consider that I've spent the past two weeks in class redefining my relationship with butter.

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.»

Erick Aybar was a little better, but that's damning with faint praise.

That's not intended as an insult, or even damningly faint praise; they had a plan, and that plan worked.

Whilst that might be damning him with faint praise (the «best of a bad bunch», and all that) after a poor showing by Liverpool, there is no denying that he has settled instantly as the indispensable heart of the Reds» midfield.

While damning him with faint praise as «fun» and a «likeable person» today, he has delivered the man he once backed to be prime minister a hammer blow.

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».

This wasn't the hatchet job of his recent Newsnight appearance, but even when the Prince of Darkness is on his best behaviour he can't help sounding as if he is damning the Labour leader with faint praise.

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.

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.

Dear reader, that is as faint as praise gets.

I believe this is called «damning with faint praise.»

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).

(Note: That definitely should not be interpreted as damning with faint praise.)

Anyway, his look alone is sufficient to prompt this memo from the Department of Faint Praise: A quarter - century after it began, A Good Day to Die Hard continues the franchise without undue embarrassment.

(This is probably damning with faint praise).

It's true that this is the strongest of the prequels, but that's obviously faint praise.

I will say it's the best video game movie — ever, but that's damning the movie with faint praise.

That might seem like damning it with faint praise, but Imagine That is a relatively well written, decent little story that is not — as the trailer might have suggested — the Eddie Murphy version of Bedtime Stories.

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.»

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.

Saying that Captain Haddock didn't sound like Gollum feels a bit like damning with faint praise, but I was too distracted by the idea that the Captain is Scottish -LRB-?)

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.

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.

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.

It's personally my second favorite of the franchise, second only to The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, but it's hardly without problems, so perhaps I'm slightly damning with faint praise.

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.

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.