In an alternate life, you could see him as a youth pastor who regularly sits backward on chairs to "rap" with kids about abstinence.
A petty officer spun a large wheel, flipping the chair backward with a gentle whoosh.
Finally, off-camera, Hayes arched backward in his chair and exhaled.
He leaned backward in his chair and scrunched his forehead as if someone had replaced his Gatorade with swamp water.
When Eli, old and blind, hears the news of the disaster, he falls over backward in the chair on which he is sitting, breaks his neck, and dies.
'They both fell on me, and I went flying backward through my chair, smashing it into bits, and fracturing my shoulder in three places.
In the mysterious opening scene of Pedro Almodóvar's "The Skin I Live In," an elegant young woman (Elena Anaya) bends backward over a chair with the taut control of a yoga master.
During class, L. hurled an eraser at another girl but instead hit a slight, dark-haired boy, who promptly scooted his chair backward at high speed, crashing into the desk of the students behind him.
Thrusting the book at her, he managed somehow to knock over his drink; sticky Coke ran down the edge of the table and onto her skirt, though she shoved herself smartly backward in her chair.
LANKY CHARLES KOCH, 63, tips his leather chair backward when he speaks, crossing one long leg over the other knee.
