Sentences with phrase «seems faint praise»

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Calling CBS's Undercover Boss one of reality television's better offerings may seem like damning with faint praise, but in its first season, the show managed to be surprisingly entertaining and even thoughtful, rarely descending into the kind of freak - show antics that prop up most other reality series.

In case it seems like I'm damning them with faint praise, consider that I've spent the past two weeks in class redefining my relationship with butter.

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.

I suppose it's sort of damning with faint praise in a way, but it's remarkable that some composers seem to emerge from the production line formerly known as Media Ventures as excellent film composers in their own right who go on to bigger and better things.

The iPad Pro is the best tablet ever, but at a time the entire market is on the decline, that seems like faint praise.

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.

While I appreciate the sentiment, the more I think about it, the more it seems to me that this defence actually damns the Bar with faint praise.

The iPad Pro is the best tablet ever, but at a time the entire market is on the decline, that seems like faint praise.

That may seem like I'm damning these things with faint praise, but I'm not.