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The plan is drawing criticism from both ends of the spectrum: conservative Republicans fear it will siphon off pro-impeachment support, and Democrats argue that it's a backhanded way of punishing the President without satisfying Constitutional standards.
But to have a gentle black giant hang his head and say "Yes, Boss," while almost every guard in a Louisiana prison circa 1935 is portrayed as a forward-thinking, tolerant humanist is the biggest backhanded slap I've seen in a studio movie in a long time.
Professor Ashley writes: “I cannot pretend to do justice in one section here to a subject that George R. Stewart almost failed to cover adequately in his Names on the Globe .’ That turns out to be a backhanded compliment, but Professor Stewart himself, an author who showed us all what could be done by way of literary style in his Names on the Land , would never have written such a sentence.
Perhaps the best backhanded compliment is provided by another New York Times review, this one from the daily paper: Richard Kluger writes that the book has "only occasional spasms of the immodesty that almost by definition infects all who venture into autobiography."
is like any hiatus in hostilities, a backhanded concession to the victim: a hearty breakfast for a condemned man."