Sentences with phrase «of backhanded compliments»

When someone tells you, «Your heart was in the right place», or «You meant well», it's one of those backhanded compliments where you can rest assured that what this person's really trying to say is, «You screwed up».

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

«It's sort of 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.

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.

This is not simply a good horror film, the sort of backhanded compliment given by those who have no real interest in those sorts of films.

Instead of a backhanded compliment, call it backhanded criticism: You'll want more of «Marjorie Prime.»

KSThat Louis quote is a bit of a backhanded compliment — it turns her into a midwife for history, rather than an inventor.

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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.

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.

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

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».

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

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

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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.

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.

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.

The Kindle mention may have been a backhanded compliment — putting a slide of the beige - cased, black - and - white, button - laden Kindle on the screen before switching to the elegant full - color iPad showcased the superior design of the Apple device.

There have been a few times at the Goon Central board where Drip Guy has put forward words that could be interpreted as backhanded compliments of me (mixed in with heavy helpings of abuse).

The game rarely managed to elevate itself above being just plain good, a backhanded compliment of sorts because there's no denying its well - made, looks lovely and was quite polished.

It may sound like a backhanded compliment to Case Zero, but I believe one of the reasons the time limit works so well is because the other elements don't.

Of course, that's not intended as a backhanded compliment.

is always useful as a backhanded compliment when you can't think of anything encouraging to say about the art itself.

If that sounds like a backhanded compliment, it's kind of deserved.