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Meanings of counterblast in English

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Usage of counterblast in English
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The beard would have been a kind of counterblast to the Rhodes hat.
Tremendous Trifles
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After the publication of 'Hamlet,' Jonson wrote his 'Volpone' as a counterblast to this drama.
Shakspere and Montaigne / An Endeavour to Explain the Tendency o...
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But it has the potentiality of a counterblast.
Europe—Whither Bound? / Being Letters of Travel from the Capital...
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As a counterblast to his theory of impersonality let us quote a few lines from R.A.M.
Promenades of an Impressionist
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The latter drew the counterblast from Clooney for spreading a climate of fear in the movie studios.
Reuters
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The outer layer of the titan-poly exploded outward, deflecting most of the projectile energy in the counterblast.
The Hyperion Cantos
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We'll publish your counterblast, whatever the consequences.
Nobody's Man
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In a prefatory note to the second edition of Paradise Lost, Milton delivered an arrogant but ineffectual counterblast.
The Principles of English Versification
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The title-page of this counterblast ran:
The Magnificent Montez: From Courtesan to Convert
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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
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It was no capitulation, we learn, merely a reappraisal of previous thought: The Horn Trio was a calculated counterblast .
The Irish Times
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Every time I made a false step, I had to devise some new "miracle" by way of counterblast.
The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont
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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
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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
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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 Frenc...
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In a world where people cling to pain and acrimony as if their life depended on it, this book offers a liberating counterblast.
The Guardian
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