What a
left-handed compliment! What she was actually implying was, "You look so OLD!"
Someone's age always a subject better left unmentioned
Parties claiming to place women on equal pedestal with men often end up giving
left-handed compliment to the fair sex with disparaging remarks against them.
The Art Of Political Duplicity
In a
left-handed compliment to the PSC Chair, Romasanta said 'the effort made by Ramirez was laudable' although it could not have changed Vargas' situation.
Butch Ramirez the diplomat
Three hankies, a busted gut and an altered perspective later, in the lobby I paid the troupe the
left-handed compliment that is the common curse of this startling genre: Surely, I wondered, they had decided on storylines and characters beforehand?
Improvising a theatrical future
In his report, Harmon had a final
left-handed compliment for the attorneys in Goss v.
Inserter suit loads up the hopper with legal papers: special master in patent-infringement suit drowns in an ocean of motions
Second, and please forgive me because this primarily a left-handed observation (not the same as a
left-handed compliment): Ejection is fantastic.
Fire for effect! First look: Ruger's new SR-556 from a USMC perspective
The best I could ever do in that department was when my better half observed, and this is the ultimate
left-handed compliment, that I was "friendly with everyone and friends with no one." Jeez, thanks a lot.
Connor? Nice guy?
It may seem a
left-handed compliment to say The Industry Standard was by far the best and most professional of this lot, but I mean it sincerely.
Standard issue: The dot-com tragedy denied. (Culture and Reviews)
The only outside context is a series of white-on-black quotes about Chomsky that range from "one of our nation's most important natural resources" to "Chomsky's anti-Americanism is just plain wrong." None can top the New York Times' classic
left-handed compliment that describes him as "arguably the most important intellectual alive" only to qualify that "his political writings are maddeningly simple-minded."
Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky In Our Time
For the time being, Dixon pays Duffy the
left-handed compliment of letting him get on with it.
OVERALL WINNER; From spark in a boiler suit to bright spark in the dugout for Duffy
Their working title, "Variazioni," prompted a
left-handed compliment from the dedicatee to Dallapiccola: "The idea of writing variations for voice is extremely original and very promising.
Studi su Luigi Dallapiccola: un seminario
That's not a
left-handed compliment, it's just that the book is paperback-sized.
The Ultimate Wine Book
That paragon of still-life painting, Giorgio Morandi, sheds light on Luz, when we recall the Italian's spindly and fluted bottles, pepper mills and flasks, pitchers and bowls, which, according to American critic Max Kozloff, in a
left-handed compliment, have nothing to support except his sensibility-a mode of seeing, a way of touching paint onto canvas, his counterpointed little groupings, a preference for certain colors within a very restricted range.
'Vintage Luz': Unfailing instinct for line
It could be a
left-handed compliment because of his inclusive ways.
Pope Francis on Merton: 'Man of dialogue'
Aquino fixed his attention on this, instead of that
left-handed compliment (right-handed insult, if you will) about ourselves being no longer the clown of Asia, he might have realized that our economy is in much deeper "kwan" than the government he had inherited from Arroyo.
Comparing apples with rotten oranges