Sentences with phrase «most backhanded compliments»

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

«My friend once gave me the most backhanded compliment.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

It merits two backhanded compliments: It's better than Volvo's terrible old system, and it's better than most touchscreen systems competitors offer.