Sentence examples for serious compliments from inspiring English sources

Balanchine seldom paid serious compliments to any other choreographers.

And that, from me, is a serious compliment.

A serious compliment coming from Mr. Lynch, who is a diner dessert connoisseur.

He or she has paid you a very serious compliment indeed.

The next year, in Boston Review, Burt wrote that "Kasischke has invented a new way for verse to sound" — anyone can recognize that as a serious compliment.

And I probably don't need to add that comparing Sullivan to Harrington et al., no matter how tangentially, is a pretty serious compliment.

It was another magical moment for the Yankees, another successful at-bat in a pressure-filled situation for Williams "You can't explain Bernie," said Derek Jeter, meaning it as a serious compliment.

The Maltese Falcon most closely reminded me – and this is a serious compliment – of Ernest Hemingway's short story from 1927, The Killers: Here's Hemingway: What do you do here nights?" Al asked.

He had seen Finney and in his eyes, as in those of most football enthusiasts of his generation, in Britain and abroad, there could have been no finer or more serious compliment.

To say that your eyes never leave Ms. Murphy when she's onstage is a serious compliment, since this production is as well cast across the board as any I've seen from Encores!

— The program, if not Tovey's entertaining remarks (he's a master at backhanded compliments), was serious.