Made in Canada is a boast, not a backhanded compliment any more.
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" Ah yes, that well-worn backhanded compliment, "You look great for your age!
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Half of me feels like the rap nomination was just a backhanded compliment.
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Later Friday, he offered a backhanded compliment of Trump's decision to choose Indiana Gov.
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" Another got a backhanded compliment: "hard worker," but "would she relax and have any fun?
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"He is super smart and — this sounds like a backhanded compliment," said South Carolina Rep.
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Yes, he wished Kate and Pete all the best, but it's a backhanded compliment at best.
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Whether they give you a backhanded compliment or deliver an outright insult, don't get sucked in.
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It kicks off with Heard calling Australia a "wonderful island"—kind of a backhanded compliment, no?
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Tyler, the Creator said his Grammy win felt like a "backhanded compliment" in a backstage interview.
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Astrologers often describe you as intense, Scorpio, but is that a backhanded compliment or high praise?
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That may explain a backhanded compliment by Germany's foreign minister, Sigmar Gabriel, after the French election.
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This worry of an "overheating economy," as Bloomberg News recently called it, is the ultimate backhanded compliment.
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The Europeans gave them little chance, though their initial opponents, Yugoslavia, did pay them one backhanded compliment.
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I could say the same thing for the Surface Studio, though in that case it's a backhanded compliment.
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This sounds like a backhanded compliment, but it's really a celebration of food as sustenance, pure and simple.
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"It was semi-infuriating, [but] on the other hand it was kind of a backhanded compliment," Alex said.
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Trump ally, mustered only a backhanded compliment for the young Democratic socialist.
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Kate and her mom have beef at the concert after Rebecca gives her a bit of a backhanded compliment.
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But, by paying a backhanded compliment to the threat from synthetics, it shows the industry is becoming less complacent.
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" And Rolling Stone gave it a backhanded compliment, writing, "Nirvana was a great band before Nevermind topped the charts.
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"That's just the sort of backhanded compliment that we here at 'The Americans' like to get," Mr. Fields said.
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Reacting to "White Helmets' winning for Best Documentary Short, the embassy sent a backhanded compliment tweet congratulating the film's "actors.
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At the time it seemed to be a backhanded compliment: getting commended on my personality at a beauty contest — ouch.
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While seeming to be a backhanded compliment by whites, it's really confirming that they believe stereotypes they hear and see.
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His way of copping to being a cad is also a backhanded compliment: He's proud of making a catch of her.
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" Teigen then reminded her husband of a backhanded compliment he received online that morning: "It doesn't take good looks to be sexy.
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Before she delivered her backhanded compliment, Klobuchar declined to say more about whether she thinks Buttigieg is too green to be president.
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"By ripping off Catholic iconography, these celebs pay a backhanded compliment to the Catholic Church in their quest for notoriety." https://t.
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He offered a backhanded compliment at congressional Democrats' lack of defections, suggesting the caucus was so unified it could have impeached George Washington.
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And in a way, their added focus on Trump represented a backhanded compliment to The Donald, who no one took seriously at first.
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A BACKHANDED compliment to Donald Trump lurked in a recent editorial in the Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the North Korean Workers' Party.
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Trump must have taken the night to sleep on the beef, because he awoke Friday morning and promptly tweeted a beautiful backhanded compliment to Schwarzenegger.
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Tipirneni points out what she refers to as a backhanded compliment from national Republicans: Republican have spent a combined $1.1 million on the House race.
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In a 22016 profile, the New Yorker deemed him "an exemplar of Silicon Valley ethics," an oxymoronic and backhanded compliment if there ever was one.
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" The day before, Marie Claire ran a backhanded compliment of a nonreview proclaiming that "A Wrinkle in Time Isn't a Great Movie, But That's Completely Irrelevant.
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The commenter in question definitely gave Winter a backhanded compliment when he suggested that she did some editing on the photos she posts on her page.
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Given the severity of the topic, this back-and-forth feels out of place, but Twitter can't get over the actor's candid response to the backhanded compliment.
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Even unassuming Pearl often doesn't notice when a member of the Richardson clan serves her a backhanded compliment at best or a knife in the back at worst.
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The next time someone gives Thandie Newton a backhanded compliment like, "You look good for your age," she wants them to consider how much women are expected to balance.
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Facebook also said the sites that were purged ran articles that were "often indistinguishable from legitimate political debate" — a backhanded compliment, perhaps — but nevertheless behaved in ways it found unacceptable.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Los Angeles is often considered an "artists city," a backhanded compliment inferring that it's a great place to make art but not to sell it.
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As he replied to a question about the Second Amendment, Mr. Trump observed that his rival might have paid him a backhanded compliment by mentioning his endorsement from the National Rifle Association.
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But Nissan insists that the shoutout was not a backhanded compliment — though it's up to the viewers to ultimately decide — and that it was legitimately attempting to pay respects to fellow auto brands.
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No one is safe from Lorman's ire; when an IRL dude once gave her a backhanded compliment on her illustrations via Tinder messenger, she screenshotted it and put his DM up on her account.
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The best it got for her, she explained, was when after she had done some work for partner Ward Woods, he managed to give her a backhanded compliment at the year-end review meeting.
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In 1993, Smith wrote a column in the New York Post giving Franklin a backhanded compliment that praised her diva mentality while simultaneously implying that the Queen of Soul dressed inappropriately for her body type.
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Well, it mostly works, and if that sounds like a backhanded compliment, well… I refer back to my opening statement: the game's blend of humor and world building is the one thing that exceeded my expectations.
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On Fox News's show The Five on Wednesday, commentator Jesse Watters tried to give King her props for her composure during the interview with a backhanded compliment, saying it was better than when she interviewed Jussie Smollett.
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Informed post-match that Novak Djokovic had said she was the "greatest female athlete of all time, probably," Williams responded by saying "probably" and then saying nothing more, looking as if she had just received a backhanded compliment.
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It wouldn't be a proper send-off without a backhanded compliment from Tormund, who tells Jon he "weighs as much as two fleas fucking," (+5) when the latter insists he can't ride Rhaegal because the dragon needs to heal.
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - When Hillary Clinton first ran for president in 2008 she was badly stung by a backhanded compliment from rival Barack Obama, who called her "likable enough" before going on to win the Democratic nomination and the White House.
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CONCORD, N.H. — It is a backhanded compliment Andrew Yang has received before, and one that a New Hampshire voter paid him again on Friday as Mr. Yang was campaigning and trying to raise his profile in the 21-candidate Democratic field.
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In a backhanded compliment to an adversary he relishes attacking, he later said during a formal postelection news conference that he would even supply her with Republican votes to win the speakership if there was not sufficient support among Democrats to elect her.
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She's right, that word, "brave," seems to be a backhanded compliment used by those who think only certain bodies that can be seen in certain ways — whether it's Graham bravely posing in a bathing suit, or Amy Schumer bravely stripping down for a calendar.
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Editorial It's tempting to take Friday's petty decision by the Trump White House to bar certain news organizations from a briefing — something no administration of either party has ever done — as a backhanded compliment to the reporters whose honest work provoked the president's latest foot-stamping tantrum.
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A backhanded compliment for Uber snuck into UK prime minister Theresa May's speech to the World Economy Forum in Davos this afternoon — when she said the company's behavior had made the case for laws being strengthened to stop gig economy workers from being exploited by overly powerful tech platforms.
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O'Brien is eighty-five years old, and praising this novel for its ambition, its daring vitality, its curiosity about the present age and about the lives of those displaced by its turbulence shouldn't be mistaken for the backhanded compliment that all this is remarkable given the author's advanced age.
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In a backhanded compliment to unions' political efficacy, a 2018 study found that right-to-work laws, by impairing union activities, reduce turnout in Presidential elections by two percentage points—and reduce Democratic vote share by enough to have cost Hillary Clinton victories in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania in 2016.
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President Obama's top spokesman on Friday lobbed a backhanded compliment at Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's running mate, Mike Pence.
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An article in the Tribune paid Sango a backhanded compliment, saying he possibly lacked the necessary financial resources to run for election due to having invested much over the years in politics with little return.
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The New York Times called it a "backhanded compliment". The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "As consolation ... Quarterbacks are called game managers only if they're winning." The Associated Press opined, "But like any cliche, [game manager is] oversimplified". Former Indianapolis Colts president Bill Polian laughed, "Every quarterback is a game manager, it's what the job is all about".
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E. Time' is the first episode where the pairings are shifted so Holt and Peralta don't work together, and I didn't think Samberg's Peralta was as strong by his lonesome. It's also the first episode where the B-story was considerably funnier than the main plot. It's Diaz who is proving the most problematic character, but that doesn't mean she's a bad character. If anything, it's a backhanded compliment to the show as a whole.
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In response, Sutherland maintained that he painted the Prime Minister as he truly saw him and that the depiction was an honest and realistic representation. MP Charles Doughty persuaded Churchill that the presentation had to go ahead to avoid offending the members of Parliament who financed it. The presentation ceremony at Westminster Hall was recorded by the BBC. In his acceptance speech, Churchill remarked on the unprecedented honour shown to him and described the painting (in a remark often considered a backhanded compliment) as "a remarkable example of modern art", combining "force and candour".
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Peggy appears surprised and disappointed when Don announces his engagement to Megan Calvet, his secretary. Peggy congratulates Don, and Don replies that Megan admires her and that Megan reminds him a lot of Peggy. Peggy interprets the gesture as a backhanded compliment, and in a private chat with Joan remarks indignantly that Don seems more excited about marrying his secretary than about her own success. Joan tells Peggy that Don is no less superficial and shallow than any of their other male superiors, and his engagement to Megan should come as no surprise.
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It helped to pave the way for a concept of "rolling news".Onions employed a talented team of young reporters and, by way of a backhanded compliment, the BBC, along with ITN and Channel 4, was not slow to recruit from the Onions stable of go-getters. Onions launched the careers of the journalists Jon Snow and Peter Allen,engaged Carol Thatcher as a phone-in host and made figures such as Bob Holness, Dickie Arbiter and Douglas Cameron household names. Onions had brisk and exacting standards allied to charm and a quirky good humour.
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While generally used in a pejorative or ironic sense, the term can also be used as a backhanded compliment to someone's perseverance, cleverness, or thrift. For instance, Azriel Hildesheimer, known for his travels around Europe to spread his rabbinical wisdom to the poor, and for his refusal to accept payment for his services, was sometimes referred to as the "international schnorrer" for his reliance on the local community to house and feed him wherever he went. Alternatively, Theodor Herzl described his early Eastern European immigrant supporters among the Ostjuden, as his "army of schnorrers".Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews, pp.
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Burroughs' Barsoom novels have also been cited as a model for H. P. Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.Price, pp. 66-68. Frederik Pohl paid homage to the novel in his 1972 short story, "Sad Solarian Screenwriter Sam," although it is a backhanded compliment: the story so offends the actual Martians, they obliterate the Earth (as the Martians attempt to do in The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells). Others influenced by Burroughs and his John Carter books include James Cameron, who mentioned the influence on his science-fiction epic Avatar in The New Yorker magazine, and George Lucas, whose Star Wars movies were influenced by Flash Gordon, which in turn was influenced by Burroughs.
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Two women protesting the pejorative 'bitch' and slut-shaming at New York City's SlutWalk in October 2011SlutWalk Rally Against Sexual Violence Draws Huge Crowd of Feminists , Rebecca Nathanson, Village Voice, October 2, 2011 In the context of modern feminism, bitch has varied reappropriated meanings that may connote a strong female (anti-stereotype of weak submissive woman), cunning (equal to males in mental guile), or else it may be used as a tongue-in cheek backhanded compliment for someone who has excelled in an achievement.Pop Goes the Feminist, Deborah Solomon interviews Andi Zeisler, The New York Times, August 6, 2006.Third Wave Feminism, by Tamara Straus, MetroActive, December 6, 2000.You've Really Got Some Minerva, Veronica Mars , 2006-11-21.
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A review in The Washington Post notes, > It's a backhanded compliment to Nader that the stampede of corporate > lobbyists into Washington starting in the 1970s began as an effort to > counter him. Conservative Grover Norquist has endorsed the book and concept, saying, "Right and left coalitions are areas of principle agreement, on perhaps procedure or even goals. Not a compromise where somebody walks in and gives up part of their soul in order to get something that moves — they think — slightly in the wrong direction, in the hope of doing something else." Reviews in both conservative and liberal publications tend to focus on Nader's career and on describing the content of the book.
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In 1525, George was appointed gentleman of the Privy Chamber, functioning as the male equivalent to the King of what a lady-in-waiting was to the Queen. As part of a reorganisation of the Court structure, known as the Eltham Ordinance, Cardinal Wolsey, an opponent of the Boleyns, ensured that George lost this position six months later when he halved the number of gentlemen in the Privy Chamber. Wolsey used the reorganisation to get rid of those whom he perceived as a threat, which was something of a backhanded compliment to the 21-year-old Boleyn whose court prominence was already being acknowledged. As compensation, George was appointed Royal Cupbearer in January 1526 in addition to his award of an additional £20 a year for him and his wife to live on.
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Erik von Markovik, "The Mystery Method: How to get beautiful women into bed", St Martin's Press, 2007 "Negging", one of von Markovik's most famous and controversial techniques, has been described as the practice of giving a woman a backhanded compliment such as "nice nails – are they real?", to weaken her confidence and therefore render her more vulnerable to seduction, or that depriving a woman of obsequious validation and attention will influence her to seek it from the man who negs her.Belknap, S. G. "Love in the Age of the Pickup Artist", The Point, 2014 Strauss refers to negs as "disqualifiers" in his book Rules of the Game, emphasizing that the primary purpose of using a neg is not to put a woman down, but for a man to disqualify himself as a potential suitor, thereby allowing for interaction to start on less loaded terms. Conor Friedersdorf lambasted the use of negging by pick-up artists, but admitted that, based on his observations, negging did appear to be effective at generating attraction from some women.
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Ipomedon is a romance composed in Anglo-Norman verse by Hue de Rotelande in the late 12th century at Credenhill near Hereford. In the sequel Protheselaus, which must have been composed slightly later, Hue acknowledges as his patron Gilbert fitzBaderon, lord of Monmouth. Gilbert's death in or just before 1191 gives an approximate terminus ante quem to both romances. Ipomedon is comparatively rich in references to the real world in which the poet lived. He names himself in full Hue de Rotelande (line 33 and two other places)Line numbers are based on Holden (1979); they differ slightly in Kölbing and Koschwitz (1889) and confirms that his house was at Credenhill: A Credehulle a ma meisun (line 10571). He mentions the siege of Rouen by King Louis VII of France in 1174 (lines 5351-5352), and also names a Welsh king called "Ris", almost certainly Rhys ap Gruffydd (line 8942). He has a backhanded compliment for the well-known writer Walter Map, evidently a friend or rival: Sul ne sai pas de mentir l'art: Walter Map reset ben sa part ("I am not the only one who knows the art of lying: Walter Map is equally good at it" (lines 7185-7186).W. P. Ker in Folklore vol.
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Following a generally positive opening day 2–2 tie with Ventura County Fusion, the Brigade promptly lost their next six games on the bounce, allowing six goals against the Southern California Seahorses, four goals against eventual divisional champs Hollywood United Hitmen, and conceded a last minute goal in a 2–1 loss in the return fixture against Ventura. A 3–0 victory at home to Orange County Blue Star at the beginning of June was followed by a 2–0 win over their local rivals Fresno Fuego, and it looked as though a brief resurgence may have been on the cards, but Bakersfield failed to win another game all season, and were out of playoff contention before the end of the month. The pair losses to perennial whipping boys Lancaster Rattlers were hard to take for the men from Kern County; the 6–0 drubbing at the hands of their closest rivals, Ogden Outlaws, on the final day of the season was the final straw, and consigned Bakersfield to the basement for the first time in the team's PDL history. Adam Arteaga scored three of Bakersfield's 13 goals, but it's a backhanded compliment to be the top scorer of a team who found any kind silver lining difficult to find.
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