Sentences with phrase «not faint praise»
So to say that Blade Runner 2049 — which opens Friday in Bay Area theaters — is very, very good, without quite being a masterpiece, is not faint praise.
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That's not intended as an insult, or even damningly faint praise; they had a plan, and that plan worked.
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.
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.
Unfortunately, other than the faint praise of saying the Schreiber / Watts / Jeremy Allen White stuff elicited a small chuckle, I don't have much else positive to say.
(Note: That definitely should not be interpreted as damning 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.
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-?)
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.
If I may pull a few adjectives from the faint - praise playbook, while «Bolt» isn't as funny, memorable or inspired as the animation classic from which it pilfers, it's still beautifully animated, cleanly told, professionally voiced and makes you smile without insulting your intelligence.
If you think that's faint praise, you don't know me very well.
Don't interpret that as damnation by faint praise, however.
Look, I'm not trying to damn this car with faint praise.
The six - speed manual transmission has the best shifter feel of any Ford manual transmission, which comes close to faint praise, but isn't.
It's definitely the best - looking minivan on the market, and no, I'm not damning it with faint praise — I'm saying Chrysler managed to actually make it look interesting.
Front seats, though not particularly good, are better than the Cavalier's, but that's damning them with faint praise.
It's also choked with bugs — not as many as Big Rigs, but then, «It's not as buggy as Big Rigs» is literally the faintest praise I can give as a reviewer.
High Moon's Transformers games, whilst scaling far greater heights than most licensed properties in this industry (which isn't terribly difficult to be honest), have always been damned with the faint praise of solid - yet - unspectacular.
It would be presumptuous of me to damn with faint praise art criticism of the last twenty years, so I won't even try.
And even if it's true that this art is of interest, isn't «interesting» — in the case of painting — damning it with faint praise?
He also wonders whether his blunt manner — he just can't offer faint praise when he doesn't appreciate another artist's work — may have held him back.
I'm interested in the cosmic ray / albedo thesis but don't see much evidence to support it and would not at all be surprised to find that the actual coupling of solar cycles to climate cycles might well be from some other connection (be it magnetic, energetic particles, gravity waves or pixie dust; — RRB - It is an interesting thesis that is at least as well support as AGW (damning with faint praise; --RRB-
Damning with faint praise, Barber says today, after the latest research: «On the basis of the modeling that we have done, the model predictions suggest that this is not a method that will reduce atmospheric co2 very much, even if you did it on a massive scale.»
I suppose I can't complain about the «damning with faint praise» tone you have taken, as that is my general policy with most things I develop an opinion on.
Even though you do not know how increasing CO2 or warming will change the hydrologic cycle, and even though you make elementary errors in statistics and probability, and even though I basically have faint praise for your csalt model (i.e. it hasn't been tested or disconfirmed by out of sample data), I stipulate that you know more of just about all of physics than I do.
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.
There's no question that was true in 2013, and that's not meant to damn it with faint praise.
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.