Sentence examples for casting back to from inspiring English sources

He was casting back to the day the doctor removed my eggs.

Livo!" is the chant and you suspect a few minds are casting back to times when another left-winger would be serenaded with similar gusto.

Casting back to antiquity and forward to the twentieth century, Grafton's investigation exposes Ranke's position as a far more ambiguous one and offers us a rich vision of the true origins and gradual triumph of the footnote.

"I remember once doing Phoenician Women, ages ago," says Mitchell, casting back to her 1995 production of the Euripides play – a production that drew upon the then still-raging Bosnian war.

In casting back to the early empire Tacitus did not wish necessarily to supersede his predecessors in the field, whose systematic recording he seemed to respect, judging from the use he made of their subject matter.

Everett uglifies himself considerably to portray Oscar Wilde in his final years: exiled in Europe and broken by the ravages of prison, public vilification, heartbreak and ill health, casting back to the glory days.

Here we essentially play the role of Jordan, spirited from his mum's deathbed and cast back to his childhood.

The mind was cast back to Valencia's trip to San Siro: one Internazionale defender complained that Villa had "made us look like idiots, all on his own".

That has a bad side: a single generation starved of knowledge, thanks to some global disaster, for example, would be cast back to the Stone Age.

He cast back to his previous experiences with profound grief, when their first child, John Lawrence, was stillborn and a second pregnancy ended in miscarriage.

"Lotus Sound," by the Thai artist Montien Boonma (1953-2000), casts back to early Buddhism, when Buddha was often represented by a simple symbol, like a hand or a tree, instead of a human figure.