Sentences with phrase «many backhanded compliments»

The best it got for her, she explained, was when after she had done some work for partner Ward Woods, he managed to give her a backhanded compliment at the year - end review meeting.

Anything you follow up with in this conversation is guaranteed to be met with eye rolls or more backhanded compliments.

If you're not familiar with responses like this, they're called backhanded compliments.

In person, they give backhanded compliments and are rude to the team.

However, it's worth some reflection to make sure you aren't dishing out too many backhanded compliments.

«Business is business,» he says, before segueing off into what is at best a backhanded compliment and at worst a direct shot at his rival.

«It's sort of a backhanded compliment.»

In a way, though, making it illegal to help our members, and then blaming us when we don't, is a backhanded compliment to the unions.

Posner offers religious conservatives a backhanded compliment, although most readers are likely to miss it.

Sir Winston Churchill gave democracy a backhanded compliment when he famously called it «the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.»

I will begin with a backhanded compliment, thanking you for making it easy for bloggers like me to issue one - way rants against the people we don't like while maintaining the appearance of a conversation.

Again, that's more a backhanded compliment than an indictment to a Lutheran.

You preach to us against backhanded compliments yet you've given one yourself.

It is no consolation (and surely a backhanded compliment) that Richard Rorty claimed that had he emigrated to the U.S., the «schwarzwald redneck» Heidegger would have found sympathetic ears amongst the agrarians.

Such a backhanded compliment pays homage to the newfound professionalism of CCM, as compared to the atrocious production standards that marked the music for its first two decades.

Taxonomists are famous for the backhanded compliment when they name stuff.

people embarrassed by their prejudices often give backhanded compliments - «no, they can't be leaders, but we value their advice.»

«My friend once gave me the most backhanded compliment.

It was a decidedly backhanded compliment.

Then people meet him, in the grocery store and at airports, and they deliver backhanded compliments.

Some describe this England under - 17 side as the «new golden generation» for England, a thinly veiled backhanded compliment alluding to the fact that a side containing Michael Owen, David Beckham, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard and a young Wayne Rooney failed to perform on the biggest stages.

I have been accused of being a linear thinker as a backhanded compliment as well.

She did as well as anyone in her position has done over the last 30 - odd years (this is, at best, a backhanded compliment).

High - January 4th: Some praise from the prime ministerr - Gordon Brown began the year with an appeal to Lib Dem voters, handing Clegg's party something of a backhanded compliment.

Many of those that were not of faith were inspired by the values of faith — remember Clement Atlee's backhanded compliment: he «believed in the ethics of Christianity», but «not the mumbo jumbo».

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio gave Cuomo a backhanded compliment about the plan, saying he supports the concept — provided the state doesn't try hitting the city with additional costs to fund it.

We've all got»em: that co-worker who regularly doles out backhanded compliments.

I hate particularly backhanded compliments and passive aggressive attitude, as they're more difficult to manage!.

What in the backhanded compliments kind of fooleywang mess is that?

(Also, I think most backhanded compliments stem from jealousy!!)

I grew up far south of here, in a place where you KNEW if someone was offering a backhanded compliment.

I suppose that sounds like a backhanded compliment.

When I wore this, I did get one of those backhanded compliments for wearing «white» jeans in winter.

A backhanded compliment.

The key here is to absolutely avoid negging or backhanded compliments, like «you've got a great smile, even with those teeth.»

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The Art Of Backhanded Compliments 9.

Jonathon Rosenbaum paid the legendary megaton bomb Sextette the ultimate backhanded compliment when he called it «the most chivalrous film ever made,» citing its willful obliviousness to the incongruous spectacle of the world's men falling over themselves to sleep with a then - octogenarian Mae West.

That's not entirely a backhanded compliment: The Strangers is a minimalist horror masterpiece, a bottled - up experiment in terror that gains much of its strength from what it doesn't do.

To call a movie «airy» and «slight» is a backhanded compliment at best, but in reference to such an inconsequential and inconsistent piece, «not bad» is as much of an endorsement as I can give it.

If I had to find fault with Revenant Kingdom it would be that it does a lot of different things extremely well rather than getting one thing perfect, but that's just nitpicking and a backhanded compliment at worst.

He also touches on the casting of the first zombie, describing the actor's features as «rectilinear» and «disjointed» — which, to me, is probably something like the very definition of a backhanded compliment.

It's an attitude quickly embraced by newcomers, even those who once might have offered the city its most famous backhanded compliment: It's close to both San Francisco and Lake Tahoe.

With his «Philip» score, it's likely a backhanded compliment to say its strength lies in its familiarity, but we mean it sincerely.

That's meant not as a backhanded compliment but as an acknowledgement that good sci - fi is hard to come by, and that impressive world - building rarely segues into sophisticated storytelling grounded in novel ideas.

That feels like a backhanded compliment, but it's not meant that way, mostly.

While Rick Alverson's Entertainment and Sebastien Silva's Nasty Baby are noticeably absent in what some consider a backhanded compliment of a ceremony, the noms for this year's Gothams do have some wholeheartedly merited double nom mentions for the Safdie Bros.» Heaven Knows What, Sean Baker's Tangerine, Bill Pohlad's Love & Mercy and Josh Mond's James White.

That might sound like a backhanded compliment — for what could be worse than the 1999 - 2005 prequels?

David Twohy's A Perfect Getaway (Universal) is a deft piece of genre filmmaking, which is no backhanded compliment.

It's often deployed as a backhanded compliment, a way of stating that the movie isn't necessarily good but its mere existence is enough for a built - in audience who are content just to see their favorite characters on the silver screen; think the middling Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice or the aggressively underwhelming X-Men: Apocalypse.