Sentences with phrase «like faint praise»

Although this may sound like faint praise, one excellent feature the Avior 7000 does possess is its illumination.

The iPad Pro is the best tablet ever, but at a time the entire market is on the decline, that seems like faint praise.

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.

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.

The iPad Pro is the best tablet ever, but at a time the entire market is on the decline, that seems like faint praise.

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

I apologize if this sounds like faint praise, but let me provide some perspective.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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-?)

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

Critics like to praise Mary Heilmann with faint damns.

«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?

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.

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.

That may seem like I'm damning these things with faint praise, but I'm not.

That might sound like damning with faint praise, but it isn't meant to be.