Sentences with phrase «meant as a compliment»

Some of his current critics used to call him «Sunny Stephen,» and they didn't mean it as a compliment.

More seriously, I think the combination of extreme writing ability, in your face attitude and, let's face it, pretty nerdy science / maths skills (I mean it as a compliment) that underwrites the whole site and its endlessly varied valuable articles isn't something one could copy.

He meant this as a compliment, I was sure, even with the backhanded swipe at my faith, and I was glad to accept it as such.

This is meant as a compliment, but it can come off as somewhat offensive.

It is meant as a compliment, but it implies that there is something wrong with anyone who is single and until one figures it out and corrects it, one is likely to stay single.

He said that this bread was as good as the worst real bread out there... but kind of meant it as a compliment.

That's meant as a compliment btw.

They mean it as a compliment, but it's really a criticism.

«He can be like Allen Iverson,» says one scout, who didn't mean it as a compliment.

Nia Jax is a monster, and that is meant as a compliment.

If it was meant as a compliment to Carl Jenkinson, then I'll second that.

They meant it as a compliment.

(Not meant as a compliment.)

Congressman Charlie Rangel, the powerful New York City Democrat, called Spitzer «the world's smartest man,» which he didn't mean as a compliment.

My celebration of your physical condition was meant as a compliment on your achievements.

And then he immediately takes it back and tries to make it seem like he meant it as a compliment.

And this is such a Suzanne Outfit and I mean it as a compliment.

I was thinking about you the other day when I was driving and how amazing your illustrations are, I know thats random, but its meant as a compliment!

As I was checking out, the store girls (who were dressed in cute outfits that gave me black mirror vibes — which I totally mean as a compliment) told me that they'll be closing the store down to paint it (Wait for it) YELLOW!

The term meat market is not meant as a compliment and it tells me the author is not very interested in the story and doesn't think much of the concept of online dating.

Even when meant as a compliment, this rhetorical question is more likely to land as an insult.

It's a smarter version of what would otherwise be a fairly normal mainstream Ben Stiller comedy, something I do mean as a compliment.

Review: Mechanical, but that's meant as a compliment.

I mean it as a compliment.

That's meant as a compliment, of course.

«He's fucking with you all the time,» Anderson recently said of the «anonymous» novelist — the last publicly circulated picture of the author dates back to 1955 — and he means this as a compliment.

Under «The Evolution of Spider - Man» you'll find Josh Dreck & Eric Matthies's 25 - minute «Spider - Man: The Mythology of the 21st Century,» an excellent primer on the origin of the character and his various transmutations over the years delivered through interviews with a few of the good men who drew him, such as John Romita («The Norman Rockwell of Marvel,» says Todd McFarlane, meaning it as a compliment) and his same - named son.

I'm not complaining about Blair's film — it's meant as a compliment that because he's crafted such a crazy ride, it deserves a broad audience on the biggest screen possible.

That's meant as a compliment, even if it doesn't sound like one.

What's initially most impressive is the steering, for while it's a relatively feedback - free device in the modern style, it combines an immediate response with linearity and normal weighting, and I never give it a second thought — which is meant as a compliment.

Whenever people call a car a «driving appliance,» it's usually not meant as a compliment.

It's often meant as a compliment and I certainly receive it that way.

I think that was meant as a compliment, but I definitely do not want to be seen as someone who can sell people shit they don't need or want.

Not that anyone would take the word of an eleven - year - old girl against that of the Second Assistant Curator — even if that girl just happens to be the daughter of the Head Curator of the museum and is rather cleverer than most (or so I've been told; oddly, I don't think they meant it as a compliment).

So while you're on the spread with the beautifully rendered, though nevertheless menacing, quetzalcoatlus (there's a helpful pronunciation key after every name), check out the flying fossils flap for a view of an absolutely disgusting (that's meant as a compliment) meganeura dragonfly, its wings delicately formed in clear plastic.

All in all, this is a quieter, more contemplative, and — I mean this as a compliment to our good colleague Mike — a less combative write than we may have seen during the springtime offensives of conferences and trade shows.

I'm sure they do mean it as a compliment.

Beth tells me she meant it as a compliment, and that's exactly how I'm taking it.

To say a console was defined by a collection of mini-games sounds like a ruthless put - down, but when we think of the globe - dominating Nintendo Wii, we think first of Wii Sports - and in fact it's meant as a compliment.

Glib as that may sound, too, I mean it all as a compliment.

Saltz had called Koons «emblematic of America,» and he meant it as a compliment.

When Jerry Saltz talks of a «superparadigm,» he does not mean it as a compliment.

I meant it as a compliment, too, and an aid to understanding.

Asked why artist Cecily Brown once called her «a female Larry,» alluding to her former employer Larry Gagosian, who is known for his aggressive ways of driving the business, Bortolami answers, with a smile, that she hopes Brown meant it as a compliment: «It was a different me.

With all that said, I enjoy the paintings and I usually don't; that is all meant as a compliment to the painter.

She makes no mention of Georg Baselitz (b. 1938) or Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), although I see echoes of them in her work, and I mean it as a compliment.

It may seem insulting if I say that Turk's show at the Newport Street Gallery struck me as one long wriggle, but in fact, I mean it as a compliment.

For the avoidance of any doubt, this is not meant as a compliment.

I once described what you do as radical media studies, and I mean it as a compliment.

In 1964, a nit - picking academic called Donald Horne tagged Australia the «Lucky Country» — and he did not mean it as a compliment.