Sentence examples for relative compliment from inspiring English sources

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I'd offer the same relative compliment to 21 Jump Street (obviously not a true original, but humor me) without seeing the least bit of a need for 21 Jump Street 2 (Cinemablend).

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I remembered relatives' compliments on fair skin.

In 2014, while working as a stripper, she launched a grassroots campaign for her personality on Instagram and Vine, posting bawdy, unflinching videos in which she monologued about whatever was on her mind — unfaithful boyfriends, the indignity of backhanded compliments, the relative merits of IHOP and Philippe Chow — in a thick New York Spanish accent.

I personally know many Arab immigrants here in the States who would rather live in America (and sometimes make less money) and not have to live close to chatty relatives with back-handed compliment syndrome.

I am sure anybody would have done that and I thank Erics parents and relatives for such a compliment.

Why would you want to go there?" Or this backhanded compliment from a relative: "You know, my company gets some of its best interns from the second- and third-tier schools!" How does a 17-year-old fend off this onslaught of superficial judgment and not feel bad about herself — when she should be feeling great about all she has accomplished?

But instead of getting huffy, use a little empathy (even a little humor) and try to see it as a compliment that these relatives wish to attend your wedding.

How can an observation about one woman's power relative to other women be a compliment for all women?

Reliability and consistency of the presented results is complimented by a propagated relative uncertainty of ±1.28%.

He complimented the characters' stylized appearance, the stories' relative complexity for children's television, and the solid jokes which make the show enjoyable for parents as well as children.

I thank him for the compliment, but with regard to the latter assessment I must ask, "Relative to what?" Did Kuttner mean relative to the universe of well-paid fund managers perennially incapable (on average) of beating market indexes?

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