Maybe blown back from all those speeding tickets she got.
She just expected me to understand that from the way she moved about, holding her hand in the small of her back for a moment of thought, or blowing back from the corner of her mouth a strand of hair that had fallen over her eye because both her hands were busy diapering the kid, and so on.
But I thought of the boys in five or ten years armed in the back of a speeding pickup, their hair blowing back from their faces as they drove into lethal danger, not as an adventure or an experience but as a way of life that would be nasty, brutish, and short.
Given the stakes, the blow-back from experts in personality disorders should come as no surprise.
But Iraq is exhibit one for those Europeans who like to argue that American naivety about democracy in the Middle East could lead to disaster and that European countries' proximity and large indigenous Muslim populations mean that it is they who would suffer most from the blow-back from any such disaster.
As reports on Iraq reach Congress this month, it's worth considering that blow-back from an oil-rich country at the heart of the battle for the Middle East could be even more severe than the violent legacy of funding Islam to fight communism in Kabul.
The ensuing blow-back from all of this, said Gordon, "has morphed into a bigger problem in corporate credit" in general.
I've written in the past about changing jobs too frequently and I received a lot of blow-back from technical people who said, "I had asshole CEOs.
The Obama administration's surprise decision to delay a U.S. strike against Syria to allow for congressional debate left anxious Israelis relieved Sunday that any potential blow-back from Syria would be postponed for at least a week.
You heard it well if you were not sitting to the back of the tent, closer to the audio blow-back from the mountainous speakers surrounding the main stage just a few hundred feet away.
