And that is how I reckon IDS survived in the Scots Guards: He'd take the 'Kick Me' signs, the backchat and name calling up to a point, but when that point was reached, boy did everybody know about it.
The script (by Affleck and Aaron Stockard) follows suit, catching the profane, sarcastic backchat and hair-trigger aggression of working-class Boston: you wouldn't want to look the wrong way at anyone around these parts.
Whereas in this country, literary disputes are resolved by lengthy sulks and bitchy backchat, American writers are rather more proactive in their approach.
I bellowed a lot of sanctimonious backchat at the television during these shows, feeling momentarily and comparatively like a really strong, noble example of a human being.
Berlin air – and Berlin backchat, or Schnauze (snout) – does not readily incubate triumphalism.
When the party broke up and all were meandering their way, with stops and starts in backchat and laughter, to the foyer, a shift in progress brought Rendall Harris's back right in front of her.
I take his point, and the result fuses well with the claustrophobia of the backchat.
First, he was encountering the gossipy, keen-witted backchat of the Common Room at Trinity; and, second, he was living at home, in the Dublin suburb of Foxrock, while he taught.
It's the best vantage for getting a feel of the unforced ebullience, and of the lively backchat between regulars and staff, one of whom gamely sports a roosterlike Mohawk.
Note the first names, the point being not just that inventing new ones would have been, you know, a total drag but that it presumably allowed Apatow, who wrote as well as directed the film, to let the backchat flow on and off the set like a two-way current.
