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Moreover, editors are likely to blunt the criticism in a backhanded way.
That Matisse is essentially an Apollonian artist and Picasso a Dionysian is evident even from the backhanded compliments they paid each other.
Rauch strikes back, gleeful in his further discovery of docudramatic distortion in Reich's backhanded self-aggrandizement.
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."