Sentence examples for dubious praise from inspiring English sources
After such dubious praise, it was hardly surprising when James took to print to attack "The Younger Generation" of English novelists, including Wells, whose fictional technique he compared to a man squeezing a sponge out of an open window.
It may seem like dubious praise, but by writing what at first appears to be an ineptly formed novel with dramatically stark images, Dugain has created a powerful fictional document, a work that celebrates its characters' unspoken inner strength and the curious bonds of their friendship.
A good example is President Ahmadinejad, for whom I've recently heard dubious praise from some progressives.
Berriault, whose most famous work, "The Stone Boy," is also included in this volume, has achieved the dubious distinction of a writer's writer, praised to the heavens in literary circles, but who moves outside of that orbit incognito.
Mr. Wen, whom many Chinese praise but whose actual power is dubious, shies away from mentioning elections.
The fallacy, he has written, consists in turning "a blind eye on the morally or politically dubious aspects of serious music," as if "the only legitimate object of praise or censure in art" is whether it's good or not.
He seemed to assume that he'd be regarded — even praised — as a doting father, rather than as a dubious politician.
Once considered a comic genius thanks to a praised graphic novel, Richard is now reduced to debt, despair and dubious employment as an illustrator for a floundering magazine.
Its dubious claim to nationhood is nicely captured in a popular survey of American colleges, which praises the University of Notre Dame for recruiting students "from 50 states, 40 foreign countries, and Canada".
