Sentence examples for faint praise from from inspiring English sources
It comes as faint praise from Scott's cutthroat brethren.
Indeed, "Amour" seemed to fall prey to faint praise from most reviewers, garnering a bushel of respectful but unenthusiastic notices.
Three developmental quarterbacks mean minimal development; Edwards has the slight edge over the others, but the man fans call "Captain Checkdown" has earned only faint praise from his new coach Chan Gailey.
West Ham still required his services after all, which must have come as quite a shock to someone welcomed to the club by damningly faint praise from Karren Brady.
In 2010, Electronic Arts released an action game based on Dante's Inferno; it garnered faint praise from the gaming community (it was deemed too similar to the "God of War" series) and was mostly derided by those literary scholars who noticed it (the key issue for them: Beatrice had become a damsel in distress).
Unadjusted numbers would've won faint praise from the crowd that likes them, and gone unnoticed by most.
To the Editor: Your editorial has faint praise for the draft proposal from Erskine B. Bowles and Alan K. Simpson, chairmen of the deficit reduction commission.
"Even though I think Guarente's whole set of prejudices is wrong, I think it is relatively harmless for him to bash away at it," is the faint praise he gets from one evolutionary biologist, Dr. Michael Rose of the University of California at Irvine.
June 29 , 2014And this, which is an example of damning with faint praise: (@heyimcarmen_) Disclosure's live set from glastonbury over towie any day June 29 , 2014HJP Updated at 11.02pm BST 10.51pm BST Disclosure have been having a lot of fun around the festival site it seems, including playing table tennis......and watching Jurassic 5 play on the Friday.
Will a publication looking back from 2030 damn them with such faint praise?
The accomplishments of "Inception" are mainly technical, which is faint praise only if you insist on expecting something more from commercial entertainment.
