Sentence examples for very high praise from inspiring English sources

In Oberammergau this is very high praise.

Monty Python has suffered from very high praise.

And there is the New Review editor Ian Hamilton leaning on the bar of Soho's Pillars of Hercules doling out to new writers in his circle (as McEwan himself was) his distinctive form of very high praise ("not bad").

"The idea of writing a murder mystery in the style of Jane Austen could all too easily turn into a kind of parlour game," he added, but happily the book "combines the grace of Jane Austen with the pace of a thriller … In my view Death Comes to Pemberley is as good as anything PD James has written and that is very high praise indeed".

Which I intend as very high praise indeed.

We also have very high praise for an excellent gearbox and transmission.

— at the moment, that appears to be the highest praise, though the Times recently told us that the very highest praise is "très Brooklyn".

And for Mr. Burton, the director of "Edward Scissorhands," "Sleepy Hollow," and now a splashy silver-screen "Dark Shadows" (opening Friday), "weird" is a term of the very highest praise.

It received very high critical praise and sold more than eight million units worldwide, making it the third best selling Nintendo 64 game, behind Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64.

So the really funny aspect of this morning's festivities at the Presidential podium in DC was that after W spoke, we had Obama coming on and having to speak in high praise and very glowing, laudatory terms about Bush when he's grown very accustomed to and comfortable with using Bush as his whipping boy.

Along the way, Homage has also received praise from a very high level in Singapore: none other than Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.