Sentence examples for backward gaze from inspiring English sources

The backward gaze has found a focus in a newly published history, "The L.S.O.: A Century of Triumph and Turbulence," by Richard Morrison, a London critic.

But she's also alone, perhaps at a party; her listening, backward gaze savors the meaning of a parting remark or subsequent talk.

In Petterson's fiction, personal retrospect — the ceaseless backward gaze to childhood, to the dominant impress made by one's parents, to all the remembered pleasure and pain of family history — is both a lure and a hazard.

Bowie saves himself from the ivory-tower mentality by beseeching that "the Janus-time of art's unfolding flow back variously into the time of ordinary living and, in doing so, protect me from the complacencies and sentimental trappings of the merely nostalgic backward gaze".

In the final shot, Pam and her son find themselves in the Buick once again, facing backward, gazing through the window at the road behind.

As with the street version, clicking directional arrows approximates walking forward or backward and gazing in any direction.

Capturing an era through the backward-looking gaze of an ageing narrator is a device that appeals more than once.

A patent lawsuit with Kodak pointed Mr. Land's gaze backward instead of forward as he spent years demonstrating before the judge how unique and excellent his product was.

European manifestos, both before and after Karl Marx, understandably looked to the future, because the Continent's long blood-soaked past offered little incentive to gaze backward.

(The image comments wittily on Peche's revival of ornament: the peacocklike fowl turns its head and gazes backward).

And variations of "the Moor's last sigh" -- the sigh the final ruler of the Alhambra supposedly gave as he gazed backward -- abound.