Word: backhanders
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What sets her well apart from the ruck of writers is the lash and sting of her language. She can summon ferocity without effort, can smilingly backhand reader or character into a tumbled heap. But she uses this violent gift in a curiously selective way. At the outset of The Shipping News, she demeans her hero, a blobby, unfocused man named Quoyle, as "a dog dressed in a man's suit for a comic photo," who possesses "a great damp loaf of a body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been...
...sophomore Tom Holmes' first goal of the year early in the third period, a backhand rebound off a shot by Cory Gustafson, that clinched the Crimson victory...
...when you hit someone that way, woman or dog (backhand, I meant), it's as if you're deliberately minimizing her, pushing her away, treating her as if she were a slave...
...effortlessly glide to my left and, at the last second, flip a backhand shot over an outstretched glove into the net. Goal...
...then came what looked to be the clincher--a Hobey Baker Special from Captain Ted Drury. Starting from mid-ice, knifing through two defensemen, forehand-backhand stickhandling, finally slipping the biscuit under Skazyk...it was a world class goal if ever there...