21.   It was a pair of strikingly backhanded compliments that caught attention on a star-studded night in Beverly Hills.

22.   It might be more of a backhanded compliment.

23.   The carping aside, Jackson does get some backhanded compliments in the press.

24.   Then Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee, closed the Olympics with a stinging backhanded compliment.

25.   Cook had a backhanded compliment for Governor Chris Patten, an erstwhile, and perhaps future, opponent in the House of Commons.