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counterblast
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Counterblast is a 1948 British thriller film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Robert Beatty , Mervyn Johns and Nova Pilbeam . It was made by British National Films at Elstree Studios .
Wiktionary
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n. A work that strongly refutes or criticises another.
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counterblast \counterblast\ n. a vigorous and unrestrained verbal response; as, her tirade provoked a counterblast from her husband.
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n. a vigorous and unrestrained response; "her tirade provoked a counterblast from her husband"
Usage examples of counterblast.
For I have abundant evidence that it has made many practitioners more cautious in their relations with puerperal females, and I have no doubt it will do so still, if it has a chance of being read, though it should call out a hundred counterblasts, proving to the satisfaction of their authors that it proved nothing.
The agrarian-based biblical and republican strandsboth variations on the duty ethic first formulated in mythic-membership culturesseem to be the only available counterblasts to the hyperindividualism and "unencumbered self" of modernity.
Macha shouted, pointing to where the offworlders weaved back and forth, dodging the powerful counterblasts of his heavy wall crystals.