Praise and overpraise are the food we seek, and we get it online.
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What else can you do with a gleaming hit maker except overpraise his misses?
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I don't mean to overpraise these pieces; yet my mind lingers in the worlds they create.
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I don't want to harsh our mellow, but I also don't want to overpraise the academy for occasionally getting it right when the industry continues to get it so wrong.
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" Elsewhere she writes, in a similar vein, about reviewing, words every critic should tattoo on his or her knuckles: "To overpraise is a subtle form of disrespect — and everybody knows it.
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I don't much like Kickstarter projects these days – too much overpraise – but this looks to be just under the realm of impossibility and the company has already raised $150,000 for the product.
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But they're increasingly trying to offer critiques of political performance, even though they rarely seem to have any idea how to separate tone from content, and tend to wildly overpraise anything they can agree seemed pretty okay.
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And it would be hard to overpraise those actors — not just Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II, but also Matt Smith as her husband Prince Philip, Vanessa Kirby as Pricness Margaret, John Lithgow as Winston Churchill and Jared Harris as Elizabeth's father, King George VI. On the latest episode of the Original Content podcast, we're joined by Catherine Shu to discuss the first two seasons of "The Crown," and what we're hoping to see in season three (with Foy and Smith replaced by older actors to play Elizabeth and Philip in middle age).
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It is possible to overpraise Balzac in parts or to mispraise him as a whole.
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8; and Gillan, Don. Account of the "Fracas at the Opera Comique" Over Christmas 1878, during the run of H.M.S. Pinafore, the theatre was renovated and redecorated by E. W. Bradwell, reopening on 1 February 1879. The Era commented, "We can hardly overpraise the beauty and grace of the Opera Comique as it now appears to the delighted audience.""Opera Comique" . The Era, 9 February 1879, reprinted at The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive.
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Nonetheless, Jeeves's view of Bertie's intelligence has apparently softened by the first novel, when Jeeves says that Bertie "is, perhaps, mentally somewhat negligible, but he has a heart of gold".Wodehouse (2008) [1934], Thank You, Jeeves, chapter 7, p. 82. At one point in the ninth novel, Jeeves actually commends Bertie's quick thinking, saying that Bertie's tactic of hiding from an antagonist behind a sofa "showed a resource and swiftness of thought which it would be difficult to overpraise".Wodehouse (2008) [1963], Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 21, p. 178.
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Rats, Lice and History received an overwhelmingly positive critical reception on its release. In his review for The New York Times Book Review, R. L. Duffus wrote that "Dr. Zinsser, without being condescending and with no taint of "popularization," has written one of the wisest and wittiest books that have come off the presses in many a long month." In a front-page review in the New York Herald Tribune Books, physician and medical writer Logan Clendening wrote "It is impossible for me to overpraise this fascinating volume".
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Harrell made his recital debut in New York in 1971, and a year later played at a Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center concert. In a review of that concert, Harold C. Schonberg of The New York Times declared that "it would be hard to overpraise the beautiful playing" of Harrell, adding "this young man has everything". For the rest of his life, he continued to perform internationally as a recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestras. Also in 1971, he began his teaching career at the University of Cincinnati – College- Conservatory of Music.
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There is such gossamer-like fragility to his new identity as Maura. It is to the great credit of... Tambor that there is nothing camp about Maura. She is this enormously lovable creation, a heroine you adore and fear for." Eric Thurm, reviewing the pilot o the series for The A.V. Club, called Maura the show's "new, furiously beating heart... It’s tough to overpraise Jeffrey Tambor’s work in the pilot—the weary softness in his voice (“Oh.”), the slight shifts in the way he carries himself as Mort and as Maura, and the way we can immediately see a continuity between the two as distinct, but related expressions of the same person.
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