Authentic representations of black people created by black people have had to be exceptional to receive even the slightest praise in the film and television industries.
We're gonna wait and see -- wait for its inevitable shortcomings to show up -- before we drop even the slightest praise.
Ducks Coach Bruce Boudreau said he was sorry for the slight, but praised Holzer's work ethic.
Give me a few thousand more of those!" Now that people have started telling her that "The Signature of All Things" will attract "a different level of reader," she can't help hearing the implicit slight in this praise: "You might be lucky enough to get out of your ghetto, now that you've found a better grade of readers, meaning male readers.
But while the flow of immigrants across the border has been slowed, it has not been entirely stanched, and the Border Patrol has earned only the slightest hint of praise from residents here.
When he was asked to give his thoughts on Rubio, he threw in a slight dig while praising the senator.
Your horse should tilt his head, or better yet shake it; reward him with a treat for the slightest try and praise him.
On how N.F.L. veterans learn to treat praise and slights, victories and losses, exactly the same.
Robert Christgau considers the album's songs to be "definitely slight" and "uneven" but praises the vocals, stating that "speedy or dreamy, Kim Deal sounds so sane, so unpretentious, so goddamn nice that you want to take her home and give her a shampoo".
— but they are sincerely made and, despite all those movies and all that praise, have a slight, useful tang of hyperbolic defensiveness.
