Word: backhandedness
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The fact that voters still demand these virtues in a leader is a confession, however backhanded, that they respect the very values they violate in their own lives. The situation thus created is both salutary and absurd. And, for the candidates, more than a little cruel. Still, they have only...
Marvelously harrowing. Last Rights has the voyeuristic magnetism of a horror film. You know it'll deliver a backhanded slap of terror, violence and shock, but you can't help looking. The album's first planned video, "Killing Game," culminates in two alien characters--whose veins are on the outside...
Americans tend to react to the Japanese inroads with a surly, complex resentment, or with chauvinism, anger, chagrin, even backhanded admiration. The Los Angeles County transportation commission canceled the contracts it had granted to Sumitomo for a light-rail transit system and decided to try to get into the business...
Bears defenseman Mike Brewer weaved his way past the entire Crimson defense--unmolested--from the blue line to the goalie's crease. Once there, he, apparent ease, backhanded the eventual game-winner past Roy.
But Harvard knotted the game on a score set up by the Crimson third line's smooth passing. Tim Burke raced down the left flank, outskating Golden Knights defender Mikko Tavi across the blue line, and slipped the puck across to Steve Flomenhoft, who backhanded the puck by Clarkson netminder...