| 单词 | counterblast |
| 例句 | It's an interesting counterblast to the rising tide of work that asks single or small numbers of audience members to connect with a small group of performers. Is intimate theatre 'decadent'? 2011-08-09T11:46:36Z “The Silk Roads: A New History of the World” is a counterblast to another ambitious book from an earlier generation, J.M. Brilliant threads 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z But always with that original note hanging in the air, as both counterblast and guiding horn. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z For Christian apologists, it was a welcome counterblast to recent antireligious best sellers like “God Is Not Great” by , “The God Delusion” by and “Letter to a Christian Nation” by . Antony Flew, 87, Philosopher and Ex-Atheist, Dies 2010-04-17T02:21:00Z Prior to its seventh season, which kicks off Thursday at 10 p.m., the duo experienced a widely-reported shock of cultural counterblast. Taking the Portland out of “Portlandia”: It’s less about place than it is about personalities 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z It isn’t comfortable but is itself a counterblast against closing oneself off. Where next? How to cope with Brexit uncertainty 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z He ended his counterblast with what sounded like a manifesto. Can anyone retire in their 30s? Meet the people who say yes 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z We are now reduced to hoping that George Osborne, as editor of the London Evening Standard, will redeem himself by producing an effective counterblast to all of the Brexit nonsense. We’re in a fine mess if George Osborne is our last hope of halting Brexit 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z A counterblast to Mr Mistry was published on Thursday and finally detailed some of the company's complaints against its former chairman. Tata tries to oust Cyrus Mistry from subsidiaries - BBC News 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z But both are running for president, and so indefensible conduct becomes defensible and statements of the obvious provoke ferocious counterblasts. 2016 should make us rethink our approach to politicians 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z The latter drew the counterblast from Clooney for spreading a climate of fear in the movie studios. Third Point's Loeb trades digs for diplomacy in Japan 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z But others thought it a wonderful counterblast to the self-indulgent commercialism of most pop. Why does lowbrow music hit the right note? - BBC News 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z We can also expect the beginning of a counterblast of speeches, editorials and comments from those in charge of the CIA at the time attacking the Congressional report. CIA report prompts US security alert 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z The group would establish its own ruthlessly highbrow journal, an ongoing counterblast to the soporific blandishments of which Hardwick had complained. Robert Silvers interview: 'Someone told me Martin Scorsese might be interested in making a film about us. And he was' 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z A new book, “Talent Wants to Be Free”, by Orly Lobel, a law professor at the University of San Diego, presents a powerful counterblast to this argument. Schumpeter: Ties that bind 2013-12-12T16:01:17Z Nevertheless, for all his reasonableness, The Last Days of Detroit is a sustained counterblast to the received wisdom that the city is a place devoid of hope and doomed to a terminal, post-industrial decline. The Last Days of Detroit by Mark Binelli – review 2013-01-13T00:05:14Z He owed his success mainly to the integrity of his patriotism and the opportune moment at which he sounded his counterblast to the French oppression. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z These were heterodox opinions, indeed, which South-eastern London could only receive with a strenuous counterblast of orthodox brickbats and sound Anglican road metal. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z The one, if it exists, is but a counterblast to the other. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z The exploits of the hero himself are coarse and hideous failures, and the whole poem can only be taken as a counterblast to the spirit of chivalry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z From your weed rose the cloud that no counterblast, royal or plebeian, has ever yet been able to sweep away from the lips of men. Papers from Overlook-House 2011-08-07T02:00:08.643Z She was writing furiously, despatching a counterblast to the aunt's interfering letter, which had contained more warnings than she had read aloud. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z But before Nietzsche finally rejected Schopenhauer and gave his shocking counterblast to the undermining action of pessimism, he succumbed temporarily to the spell of another gigantic personality. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z The decision of the senate on the 18th of May 1804, giving him the title of emperor, was the counterblast to the dread he had excited. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Nilus knows this very well, and he does not waste time in the hopeless task of finding counterblasts to democracy in Jewish political literature. The myth of the Jewish menace in world affairs or, The truth about the forged protocols of the elders of Zion 2011-04-01T02:00:43.730Z He had brought the counterblast with him—six sheets of foolscap, with all the t's uncrossed—and insisted on signing it with his own name. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z He took an active part in organizing a reformed Roman Catholic Church in Germany, and in 1527 published a German version of the New Testament as a counterblast to Luther’s. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z In each case the manager risked a counterblast from the supporters but pressed on anyway, sure of his ground, sure that United would always outlast any individual and could renew themselves. Why Wayne Rooney may be close to the point of no return 2010-10-16T23:10:00Z This counterblast against consultants is largely to the good. 2010-01-21T10:37:00Z As a counterblast, El Dia had appeared the morning following the death of the king, with a heavy, wordy, black-bordered leading article in which the influence of Spain was barely disguised. The Princess Galva A Romance The suggestion of an ecclesiastical council was a menace that grated unpleasantly on the pontifical ear, and was used by European princes as a sort of counterblast to the threat of excommunication. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 At any other time, indeed, it would have served as a powerful draw in keeping her to him; now however, the entirely fresh excitement she had struck formed an effective counterblast. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland To this manifesto Mr. Gladstone, with his usual long pains in the drafting of such pieces, prepared his counterblast. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) The man below answers this call by a counterblast through the tubes, and a small index in the light-room is thereby raised to signify that the signal has been obeyed. Smeaton and Lighthouses A Popular Biography, with an Historical Introduction and Sequel Adrian cut her speech across with an ebullition of sound sense—a protest against extremes—a counterblast to hysterical judgments. When Ghost Meets Ghost Frontenac's counterblast was the dispatch of a lieutenant and three soldiers to arrest a retainer of Perrot named Carton, who had shown contempt of court by assisting the accused woodsmen to escape. The Fighting Governor A Chronicle of Frontenac The Cyropaedeia is said to have been intended as a counterblast to Plato's Republic, and it may have provoked Plato's casual remark in the Laws that 'Cyrus never so much as touched education'. Five Stages of Greek Religion But the League was mainly a party counterblast to the Annexation Manifesto of 1849 and soon disappeared. The Fathers of Confederation A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion The appearance of this protest was naturally the sign for an immediate counterblast, and the two Central Societies in London put a form of declaration into immediate circulation. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The first requires no special counterblast; the old monition, "Don't like it for its impropriety, but also don't let its impropriety hide its merits from you if it has any," will suffice. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century To these the first of the two following sonnets was designed to serve by way of counterblast. Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III Here came the counterblast, when Louis, son of King Philip II. of France, received the kingdom from the assembled magnates. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch It is true, of course, that Comus was one of several masks performed as an aristocratic counterblast to the attack of Prynne and the Puritans on all stage performances. Milton Not, rightly understood, as a method of arresting environmental Socialism, nor even as a counterblast to its gospel of sympathy. The Task of Social Hygiene But it has the potentiality of a counterblast. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 A doughty, but anonymous, champion jumped into the breach and issued a counterblast to Papon's effort in the shape of a second pamphlet, headed "A Reply." The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert In a prefatory note to the second edition of Paradise Lost, Milton delivered an arrogant but ineffectual counterblast. The Principles of English Versification Wier's book was condemned and denounced by the clergy—he himself was a Protestant—but the most serious counterblast against it came from the pen of Jean Bodin, the illustrious French philosopher and jurist. Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study His form master, Dames Longworth, a fine old Tory, sent it up to The Spectator, as a counterblast to such "pernicious stuff". The Loom of Youth He had to be careful, otherwise their counterblast might do nothing more than start the gray planet wobbling. Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet Whenever anybody counterblasts to-day against tobacco, I feel as did my old friend Wilkie Collins, when somebody told him that to smoke was a wrong thing. The Social History of Smoking "It isn't decided yet," he said, as they made their way towards the luncheon room, "whether there is to be a counterblast." Nobody's Man It may be regarded generally as a sort of manifesto of the Evangelical party; and specially as a counterblast against the defective theology of what Whitefield called 'England's greatest favourite, "The Whole Duty of Man." The English Church in the Eighteenth Century Now, in the lump, meet a shrewd counterblast. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 8, 1892 I had been reading listlessly a cruel essay in the Atlantic on the wickedness of smoking, and was presently seized with a desire to look at King James's famous "counterblast" against the weed. Doctor and Patient But now ’tis over and he breathes anew, The counterblast of sorrow shakes his soul, Whilst our affliction vexeth as before, Have we not double for our single woe? The Seven Plays in English Verse On the other hand, it was a necessary counterblast to formalism. The Art of Letters If and when the Suffragettes come into power, we shall have a prodigious counterblast to tobacco that would delight the Stuart James of unsainted memory or the now illustrious Balzac. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Enthusiastic partisans of the Persian element, these circles as a counterblast to the poverty of civilizing factors of the pre-Islamic Arab nation, turned to the glories of Persia, principally of the Sasanian past. Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I Extracts from one of these "Lives" are, for what they are worth, printed in the Appendix, together with his posthumous Account of the Poisoning of the late Mr. Francis Blandy, a counterblast to Mary's masterpiece. Trial of Mary Blandy Immediately, from behind the barrier and from the windows of the houses, a counterblast of arrows sped, carrying death. The Black Arrow The Republican Senate, meanwhile, had prepared a counterblast. The United States Since the Civil War After the publication of 'Hamlet,' Jonson wrote his 'Volpone' as a counterblast to this drama. Shakspere and Montaigne The beard would have been a kind of counterblast to the Rhodes hat. Tremendous Trifles Of the multitudinous rejoinders and counterblasts provoked by this thunder, Dryden, it is supposed, ascribed the authorship of one of the keenest to Shadwell. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 America might have been fooled into a frightful error if the great war-organizations had not come forward with a roaring counterblast. America's War for Humanity Her third ethical publication, Strictures on Female Education, came out, forming yet another counterblast to the corrupt systems in vogue amongst the wealthy classes. Excellent Women Frontenac's counterblast was the dispatch of a lieutenant and three soldiers to arrest a retainer of Perrot named Carion, who had shown contempt of court by assisting the accused woodsmen to escape. The Fighting Governer : A Chronicle of Frontenac Well, by way of a counterblast to your dejection of spirit, I propose to send an announcement of your engagement to the Morning Post. The Lamp of Fate At the same time he asked his friend Joel Barlow, then residing in Paris, to prepare a counterblast, for which he declared himself to be "rich in materials." John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court The latter's book was denounced to the Inquisition, but as a counterblast to this Banez also was accused of very serious errors. History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1 Two German Catholic priests were murdered, and as a punitive measure Germany seized Kiaochow in Shantung; while in 1898 Russia "leased" Port Arthur, and as a counterblast, England thought it advisable to "lease" Wei-hai-wai. China and the Manchus The counterblast against bleeding was a useful protest, and to deny in toto its utility in fever required courage—a quality never lacking in the Father of Modern Chemistry, as he has been called. The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 His argument is a good specimen of the reasoning of his party on this subject, and presents a decided counterblast to that of Las Casas. History of the Conquest of Peru; with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas Every time I made a false step, I had to devise some new “miracle” by way of counterblast. 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