Sentences with phrase «with faint»

Plain glass splashbacks with a faint green tinge provide protection without making an obvious statement, while a subtle touch of pattern appears in the oven gloves hanging on the cooker.

New, tufted upholstery in a gorgeous light blue with faint blush accents.

The new black Oiled Soapstone are a smooth surface with a faint mottled gray, which hides smears, also have held up beautiful.

«No other business is required to provide goods or services without payment, yet landlords must by law allow tenants to remain in their apartments for months with faint hope of recovering the cost.»

«No other business is required to provide goods or services without payment, yet landlords must by law allow tenants to remain in their apartments for months with faint hope of recovering the cost,» says Vince Brescia, FRPO president and CEO.

But their loyalty «fades as fast as Zellers aprons» in the words of Peter Newman as he at once recognized and damned a brand with faint praise.

Instead they're damning the scientists trying to sound the alarm, with faint praise and innuendo.

txt resume, and upon opening I was met with faint text and hard to read bullets.

txt resume (I double - clicked on it and my text - editor opened up with some faint text and hard to read bullets — uggggly!)

The buds are shaped like torpedoes, with a faint ribbed texture on their metal body.

That might sound like damning with faint praise, but it isn't meant to be.

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

The power bank is well - made with a robust, scratch - resistant surface with a faint crisscross texture for subtle styling.

Sorry, but at this point what you're doing is basically a salvage operation, with a faint hope that you can rescue your hardware and your investment.

The white film moves inside the basin with a faint whoosh and I feel confident to get down to business.

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.

There's no question that was true in 2013, and that's not meant to damn it with faint praise.

In his awful National Review piece, Steyn quotes this truly disgusting thing and then with faint damning says, «Not sure I'd have extended that metaphor all the way into the locker - room showers with quite the zeal Mr Simberg does, but he has a point.»

They await death, with the faint prospect of justification.

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.

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.»

For lack of a better description it's like «damning with faint praise».

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-

Asian pears are like something between an apple and a pear, with a faint watermelon taste.

«Indeed controversial» is academic language; but to politicians, this sounds like «praising with faint damnation» — a politician is apt to assume «is indeed controversial» means «is a hot research area» rather than «was asserted in one paper that used at best controversial methods to reach its claimed conclusion» — eh?

The elderly gentleman looked up and, with a faint look of sadness in his eyes, said, «Oh my friend, those are the people you will find in my village.»

Typically fields of color marked with faint charcoal lines suggesting a door or a window, the Open paintings were originally inspired by the sight of a small canvas leaning against a larger one.

Editor — I want to thank Kenneth Baker for damning with faint praise Matthew Barney's petrochemical mishmash at SFMOMA.

Elegantly mounted on grey dibond, they inhabit graceful stains of seafoam, delicate pinks and washed out purples which are overlaid with faint laser etchings that spill out of their self - imposed frame.

The canvases to which the pieces are affixed are stained with faint, psychedelic washes of pale pink, acid blue, and sea green acrylic.

«I create grid - like formations and abstract compositions with faint pencil and tape lines or thousands of small hand - cut pieces of transparent tape, inspired by the rhythms of architecture and weaving.

The second half of the show has small paintings (and photos thereof) in the dandyish mode in vogue at the moment — Tim Eastman's swaths of linen adorned with sketchy flowers, Alissa McKendrick's pale mint and peach abstractions (hung next to a wall drawing of a small cat made with faint paint) and Cliff Borress's photographs of abstract paintings in plushly appointed rooms.

In other work by Siskind, the photographed pattern is subdued and overall, or with a faint graffito showing through.

The show plans to feature approximately 35 large - scale paintings and works on paper surveying the variety of Bacon's painterly compositions united by Bacon's common motif of surrounding subjects with a faint, framing, cubic or elliptic cage.

Critics like to praise Mary Heilmann with faint damns.

Richard Pousette - Dart's «Eye of the Circle» (1975 - 6), a contemplative white painting with a faint central image of a circle in a rectangle, dominates one wall of a hushed, chapel - like room (with Gregorian chant, yet, playing softly in the background).

The work is cerebral, whilst also being emotionally engaging — it carries with it a faint air of nostalgia that conveys something of the suburban whiff of a Seventies childhood.

Bold and muscular brushstrokes contrast with the faint lines of a spray can and the rich texture of paint squeezed directly from the tube to the canvas.

The viewer sees the vignettes with faint remembrance, wondering, have I dipped my toe in that very shore?

It's an operation dedicated to ancient Greek art, and to describe its exhibits as «museum quality» is to damn with faint praise: we'd have to be talking about quite some museum.

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?

Delicately intermixed in those white lines are filmy passages of blue, yellow, and green, staining these imaginary streets with faint echoes of a verdant landscape, abstracted vaguely and delicately in the manner of Helen Frankenthaler.

More jumbled text from the 1960s approaches aphorisms, and one last series, from 1995, takes language to the edge of landscape, with the faint pencil of Birds, Trees, Mountains, Moss, and Leaves.

It would be presumptuous of me to damn with faint praise art criticism of the last twenty years, so I won't even try.

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.

Saying these three COD games are the best first - person shooters for the Wii would be damning them with faint praise; they are, in fact, most of Wii's FPS library.

Thankfully, they had the good sense to provide the player with a faint arrow on the ground, which designates where the aim is pointed.

Given Konami's recent track record, Metal Gear Survive might exceed my expectations, which is about as damning with faint praise as you can get.

Games about oriental military conquests with faint historical accuracy where you can choose dozens of over-the-top warriors to magic - murder the hell out of thousands of soldiers and officers, while only hitting a two to three different buttons during hours of gameplay?

It has a great noir edge to it, so I came into the game with faint hopes of a story that could hold my interest as much as the first time I watched Se7en, and while the game doesn't begin to touch David Fincher's masterpiece (despite a few nods throughout), I left feeling a whole lot more satisfied than I thought I would.