Mixed Blessing

State of the Union 'response' often a mixed-blessing for the responder. for the responder. ❋ Washington Post Staff (2011)

In the mixed-blessing department, and barring the last-minute editing of a sex scene, it will have an NC-17 rating, which could hurt Oscar chances but generate publicity. ❋ Monika Anderson (2010)

Pretty soon that baby's gonna drop down into the exit chute which is a mixed-blessing, really. ❋ RICHARD (2009)

In the mixed-blessing dept., it has a proprietary arrrrrrrrgh sync jack. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I had the mixed-blessing of having seen Mr. Patrick in a truly awful piece of dribbly dreck entitled The Marine not two nights before seeing Terabithia in the theater. ❋ Fusenumber8 (2007)

For “F” it was a mixed-blessing, since she adored her infant son, yet had to do so under less than optimal conditions. ❋ Unknown (1989)

"Paradise Lost 3" is perhaps the most interesting and well-made film of the trilogy, not only because of its mixed-blessing epilogue, in which Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley ❋ Hank Stuever (2012)

In the mixed-blessing dept., it has a proprietary (arrrrrrrrgh) sync jack. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For the short-term the increased lending may be a mixed-blessing, as the bank also reported it lost money in the third quarter by putting $1.1 million aside to cushion itself against possible loan losses, the South Florida Business Journal reported Tuesday. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A mixed-blessing trend hitting community colleges across the nation has missed South Plains College. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Italian-American novelists like Mario Puzo, Hamilton Basso, and Paul Gallico may have achieved a larger readership, and poets like Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, and Diane di Prima may have received more respectful critical attention, but no one has ever improved upon Fante’s portrait of the tension between two generations of Italian-Americans and the mixed-blessing debt that the second owes the first. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Mixed Blessing is a drink that lives up to its name. Just add 4 parts wine [and 1] part [whiskey] for a truly [memorable] (and perhaps unmemorable) event. ❋ Duluthian (2011)

"Yo man, I [screwed up] and went to gay night again!" "Aw really? that sucks." "Its [aiight], I just relied on the ole Houdini Mixed Blessing trick, gets em every time!" "[Yea boy]! At what price though?" ❋ The Farmsdale J-boy (2006)