1.   If that seems like faint praise, you should read the dozen most recent books on Paradise Lost.

2.   With these words of faint praise, Maskelyne tactfully conceded a few major flaws in the lunar distance method.

3.   But he also seemed to damn him with faint praise.

4.   But given the acting talent involved, such faint praise is pretty damning.

5.   But that is faint praise indeed.

6.   Damning with faint praise exactly what such a statement implies, Americans have long known that they get the best politicians that money can buy.

7.   Even Andrew Cuomo, a staunch Gore ally and a good friend, damned the vice president with faint praise.

8.   Faint praise, perhaps.

9.   Faint praise from an ideological foe.

10.   For McGreevey, who has described Torricelli as a close friend, the senator had only faint praise Wednesday.