Yes the curate is being a sycophant in trying not to appear critical of the bishop. He sought to make out that the egg was some balance of good and bad when the fact is that if the egg is not all good then it is entirely inedible. The point is that the good parts could not redeem the bad egg. This may be what the writer was trying to put across; that the entire phone is bad because not all of it is good. That is surely a truism in the ultra competitive smart phone market. On the other hand it could just be lazy use of metaphor.
Oh noes. I used 'metaphor' and 'truism' in a post about pedantry. That's not going to go so well.
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Yes the curate is being a sycophant in trying not to appear critical of the bishop. He sought to make out that the egg was some balance of good and bad when the fact is that if the egg is not all good then it is entirely inedible. The point is that the good parts could not redeem the bad egg. This may be what the writer was trying to put across; that the entire phone is bad because not all of it is good. That is surely a truism in the ultra competitive smart phone market. On the other hand it could just be lazy use of metaphor.
Oh noes. I used 'metaphor' and 'truism' in a post about pedantry. That's not going to go so well.