Sentence examples for the compliment of from inspiring English sources

Totalitarian regimes pay writers the compliment of taking their work seriously.

Usually he paid everyone the compliment of offering the same kind of personal relations.

In other respects, however, Osborne pays Brown the compliment of copying him.

And, worst of all, he does Christianity the compliment of first seeking to understand it.

He pays them the compliment of not watering down or simplifying concepts, but he does occasionally condescend or flatter coyly.

Wimbledon has since paid Lovera the compliment of building its own No. 1 court in the round.

Dubai's neighbors, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, even to some extent arch-conservative Saudi Arabia, are paying it the compliment of imitation.

In architecture and in the use of the French language, German courts paid it the compliment of imitation.

Unlike Osborne and fellow "angries", Sillitoe doesn't even pay the establishment the compliment of dramatising its decline.

Unlike every other President since Jimmy Carter, he doesn't even offer human rights the compliment of hypocrisy.

In Sense And Sensibility, Elinor looks at Robert Ferrars, who's a complete idiot and decides that he doesn't deserve "the compliment of rational opposition".