Once again, almost as a backhanded compliment, the home fans burst into their Brodeur chant.

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In the coffee houses of Lvov, optimistic Galician intellectuals see all this as a backhanded compliment.

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To Mr Heinapuu and his pals, the Russian ire they arouse is a backhanded compliment.

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So it did too in Argentina a backhanded compliment to the vigour of the country's recovery from its economic collapse of 2001-02.

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On stage Saturday, Wilson paid fans the ultimate backhanded compliment befitting his character, Dwight Schrute, a paper salesman utterly lacking in social graces.

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What a backhanded compliment one stereotyped caper movie stacked up against another.

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The president took a jab at his challenger's world view -- paying him a backhanded compliment for his analysis of the threat of terrorism to the United States.

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That backhanded compliment, like Auden's, well describes Macau's elusive charm.

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In a backhanded compliment to the Lib Dems, he described the party as "our gallant allies, without whom life would be much more difficult for us" to laughter from peers.

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