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Moreover, editors are likely to blunt the criticism in a backhanded way.
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.
is like any hiatus in hostilities, a backhanded concession to the victim: a hearty breakfast for a condemned man."
Rauch strikes back, gleeful in his further discovery of docudramatic distortion in Reich's backhanded self-aggrandizement.
This deliciously backhanded phrase--an allusion to Czechoslovakia's "socialism with a human face," which was crushed by Soviet tanks in 1968--conveyed three corrosive messages: that conservatism lacked compassion to begin with, that conservatives couldn't tolerate compassion, and that for this reason, conservatism, like socialism, was doomed.