Sentence examples for cast downwards from inspiring English sources

Sitting in a plain white conference room adorned with maps of the world and the United States, his hands trembled and his eyes were cast downwards.

When the picture is rotated, the woman's reflection becomes the dominant character, like a muse with an unbreakable hold over the piano player, whose eyes now appear to be closed in sleep, rather than cast downwards at the keys.

Not a phony one that pretends at populism while casting blame downwards at society's most marginalized, e.g the "Tea Party". The delusion that there is something akin to an organized movement on the left combined with the right's co-opting of terms like "grassroots" and "populist" has the collective polity's head spinning like a scene from The Exorcist.

Benedict has a soft, plump handshake, and a tendency to cast his eyes downwards as you speak to him – a shyness that, associates say, goes hand in hand with genuine humility.

A pensive Galician girl casts her eyes downwards in Vigo.

Looking away from people or casting your eyes downwards is a way of blocking people out and staying in your own world; don't worry, people won't try and enter it.

He responded by casting his eyes upwards, downwards and sideways and saying: "I am really not sure".

Barnett casts her hooded eyes downwards, her voice flutters like falling rose petals as she sings, "I love another, and thus I hate myself".

First, you cast your hook into the sea, letting it drift downwards, tilting your iPhone to avoid fish, crabs, squid and the game's catalogue of made-up ocean fauna (the geometric graphics are witty, even rather chic).

The previously cast pillar samples (Section 2.1) were fixed with the pillars pointing downwards and dipped into the thin PDMS layer, resulting in small droplets of PDMS on the pillar tips.

The red extended upwards almost to the neckline, and downwards to mid-thigh, petering out top and bottom in a sort of cast-off splatter.