Sentences with word «backhand»

He also has a pretty smart mouth and delivers plenty of backhanded compliments in game.

In backhanded ways, certain bits of DNA or RNA — a molecule that normally transmits a genetic message — can actually suppress a gene's information.

Think of running on a grass tennis court as opposed to returning backhands on a playground asphalt court.

Of course, not all failed summary judgment applications result in backhanded success for the applicant.

In the same way as backhanded compliments are flattering, driving the 2015 Toyota Yaris is fun.

Of course, the director never had someone as talented as Wilkinson in the role, and the veteran actor has a field day as the cold - hearted mobster who disciplines his cronies with backhanded slaps and tortures his enemies with American crawfish.

Thanos, realizing how this distraction nearly cost him his great power, turns back to Steve Rogers and, with a simple backhanded slap, he kills Captain America, who slumps down to the floor in a lifeless heap.

In what may sound like backhanded praise (it isn't), Darren Aronofsky's turbulent «mother!»

I learned to shoot backhand from playing street hockey, where the goals weren't opposite one another, because we didn't have enough room.

As a sign of how well Daley and Goldstein have cast the film, there's an early scene featuring a deadpan Camille Chen as a fertility doctor, whose backhand insults and dives into inappropriate personal matters almost go past our notice.

The falling down backhand flip by Cabrera in the bottom of the 9th inning helped the Indians clinch the win, 4 - 2 over Detroit.

Kane took another Pavelski pass and beat Gibson on a breakaway with a nifty backhand shot.

She has a menacing two - handed backhand and a powerful forehand drive and is a fine screen player.

people embarrassed by their prejudices often give backhanded compliments - «no, they can't be leaders, but we value their advice.»

«Eleanor Rigby» deserves real praise, not backhanded praise.

The only person he seems to truly connect with is his equally vile mentor Ike Zimmerman (Jonathan Pryce), whose mixture of backhanded praise and blatant condescension is the closest form of flattery Philip will accept from anyone.

Golf exercise with the RMT Club used to improve backhand swing by focusing on core stability, lower body strength, and rotational movement training.

He made a beauty of a forehand - backhand move to bury the game winner past Jonathan Quick and extend the series.

Anything you follow up with in this conversation is guaranteed to be met with eye rolls or more backhanded compliments.

If you're not familiar with responses like this, they're called backhanded compliments.

Two assemblages are encased in glass vitrines and illuminated from the interior, reinforcing Genzken's notion of the public and political relic and paying backhanded homage to traditional modes of viewing and presenting works of art.

FYI Lee's got the 3rd-most backhand goals in the league the last 3 years but most of those were definitely off rebounds / loose pucks or even breakaways (CHI).

«What's the deal on the low backhand volley?»

Maverick Bronx State Senator Rubén Díaz, Sr., offered backhanded support for Ms. Rosado.

Instead, it's a silly and cliché - ridden backhanded homage to the 60s spy movie craze that substitutes disarmament for the missile gap and Bosnia for the Iron Curtain.

You're unlikely to spend July returning backhands at Wimbledon, but you're still going to sweat.

But, suddenly, the Little Backhand That Could, couldn't.

It can also grow old trying to achieve the required number of backhand winners when it seems as if your opponent isn't setting themselves up to be beaten by that shot selection.

The former ND Fighting Sioux went forehand shot fake - backhand once again and is now an absurd 15/18 in the extra game.

It's a great feeling when your body responds the way you want it to, whether that's having a more powerful tennis backhand, getting ALL the grocery bags out of the car AT ONCE, or finally doing that fifth push - up.

However, it's worth some reflection to make sure you aren't dishing out too many backhanded compliments.

(Also, I think most backhanded compliments stem from jealousy!!)

Often used as a set - up punch for the stronger backhand, to measure distance or in some rare cases as a power shot.

I suggest that this notion, in however backhanded a way, was present in our frock - coated minister, and that we should recover it and bring its attitudes and methods up to date.

You can either keep the retaliation cycle going and continue to lash out at your spouse with a verbal backhand, or you can break the cycle and choose to be the one to take a blow.

(FYI he's got the 3rd-most backhand goals over the last three seasons.)

Parma had a slice backhand and an excellent forehand, both of which he passed on to Martina, but she thinks her style of play was in her genes.

Under Richards» supervision Martina has overhauled her game, shot by shot, adding a topspin backhand to her slice, whipping her forehand volley into shape («I was swinging at it like a ground stroke,» she says) and changing her serve to make it more effective.

She then broke Williams again with a beautiful backhand winner, and held again to go up 4 - 0 in the set.

like the spaniels with syringomyelia, the are the fault of breed standards look at the germane shepherd, there low backhand, its not seen in the wild, its not natural.

In one fluid motion, I raised my right arm and started to throw the mass over the side of the vehicle, a short backhand toss.

Cox, who is riding high following the success of Republican Bob Turner in the heavily Democratic NY - 9 congressional district, reiterated his somewhat backhanded compliment of Gov. Andrew Cuomo for adopting Republican fiscal policies, such as reduced spending and the tax cap.

Backhand supports the rotation and up and down flow of your upper body.

He hasn't lost anything still charging and getting some of the deepest backhand barrels of the trip.

He spends his free moments in search of the perfect backhand or skiing (carefully) down the slopes.

But such praise seems grudging, even backhanded, in light of their severe criticism.