Sentence examples for term of praise from inspiring English sources

He meant it, naturally, as a term of praise.

For lunch, we walked to the town center, which Musa described as "authentic," his highest term of praise.

The work looked more like what, in America, we call "European ballet," which is not necessarily a term of praise.

Fraser describes her as "cool, which I mean as a term of praise... she does what she wants to do".

Meanwhile, kitsch has also become a term of praise that enables some kinds of cultural products to be rebranded.

Nowadays, however, the one-time term of praise 'Capraseque' has almost become synonymous with the disparaging 'Capracorn'.

"Dangerous" is one of his highest terms of praise, and "restful" is one of his worst insults.

In this context, where tidiness and sense-making are the worst of all vices, "arbitrary" and "meaningless" are terms of praise.

His approach to the poems is broadly romantic, in the sense that "sincere" and "heartfelt" are his highest terms of praise.

Language was perverted ("brutal" and "ruthless" were terms of praise), laws were enacted to sanction mayhem retroactively, and faith in science yielded pseudo-archaic notions of "blood and soil".

Considered so, each work reveals itself as a teaching tool in the painful journey toward becoming not only adult but (one of Austen's key terms of praise for characters she wishes us to respect) useful.