And so blogging found its own answer to the defensive counterblast from the journalistic establishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why I Blog] Reference

The beard would have been a kind of counterblast to the Rhodes hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tremendous Trifles] Reference

Since the days of King James and his old counterblast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference

But in a counterblast to this, the British charity Oxfam said on.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Having said that, I welcome Freedman's counterblast to the current 'Wisdom of Crowds' fad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Me>We v We>Me] Reference

After the publication of 'Hamlet,' Jonson wrote his 'Volpone' as a counterblast to this drama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference

He had to be careful, otherwise their counterblast might do nothing more than start the gray planet wobbling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet] Reference

In a prefatory note to the second edition of Paradise Lost, Milton delivered an arrogant but ineffectual counterblast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of English Versification] Reference

Another SDF held a May Day demonstration on the Rand in 1904 as a counterblast to the conservative trade unions 'Labour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 5] Reference

Here came the counterblast, when Louis, son of King Philip II. of France, received the kingdom from the assembled magnates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference

That there should be a counterblast to The True Life was inevitable, and it came in the shape of The Romance of Isabel Lady.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference

You don't hear much these days about moral growth - certainly not in our frenetic, pre-election fever of accusation and counterblast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nigel Hamilton: From Rage to Civilization] Reference

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.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference

But it is more than that: it is also a counterblast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference

As a counterblast to his theory of impersonality let us quote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Promenades of an Impressionist] Reference

On the other hand, it was a necessary counterblast to formalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Letters] Reference

Lawyer says notices are counterblast to Lalit Modi's recusal plea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

Austin had offered him would have provoked a vigorous counterblast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Sunset] Reference

The first counterblast to their aesthetic Neo-platonism came from an.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference

S essay is a welcome counterblast in conservative times, says Tom McCarthy.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Ever Happened to Moderism? by Gabriel Josipovici] Reference

Every time I made a false step, I had to devise some new "miracle" by way of counterblast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont] Reference

To these the first of the two following sonnets was designed to serve by way of counterblast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III] Reference

Russia "leased" Port Arthur, and as a counterblast, England thought it advisable to "lease" Wei-hai-wai.    From Wordnik.com.  [China and the Manchus] Reference

Away they went, though not without a counterblast from the unions: 'Obey only the instructions of your organisation!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mises Dailies] Reference

On the Guardian's letter's page, John Heawood delivered a powerful counterblast to the Guardian's earlier warmongering.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyAntiwar.org] Reference

Immediately, from behind the barrier and from the windows of the houses, a counterblast of arrows sped, carrying death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Arrow] Reference

For me the really significant thing about Stephen Green's counterblast is the way it implicitly accepts a secular agenda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph Blogs] Reference

Not, rightly understood, as a method of arresting environmental Socialism, nor even as a counterblast to its gospel of sympathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Task of Social Hygiene] Reference

The book, as long as your preferred resort is Serifos rather than Scarborough, Sunshine is a counterblast to The Cloudspotter's Guide.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Shooting unveils very different sides of McNair] Reference

Napoleon sent off a counterblast, alleging that French troops had evacuated Taranto, that Switzerland had requested his mediation, that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)] Reference

This has provoked a strong collective counterblast from the contemporary folk music world in the form of the Folk Against Fascism campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mac Uaid] Reference