Sentence examples for cutting back and forth from inspiring English sources

In cutting back and forth between Burton and Speke, tension is not doubled but cut in half.

Cheap trick alert: Mr. Lynch divides his book between two time frames, cutting back and forth between them.

Perez-Reverte unravels his mystery by cutting back and forth among discrete but converging stories and sets of characters.

Each of the four primary episodes examines the migrations of four or five different animals, cutting back and forth among them as Alec Baldwin narrates.

The documentary sometimes gets on a jag of cutting back and forth between eccentric camera angles and symbolic still life — a lamp, a teacup — to distracting effect.

Their "sideways" and flashback-laden narratives involved constant cutting back and forth among disparate characters, reflective of an emerging culture of sensory as well as existential multitasking.

You tell your story impressionistically, cutting back and forth in time, letting crucial scenes happen offstage, and occasionally interrupting the first-person narrative with other voices.

Campbell, smartly, sliced and diced the events of Jobs's life, frequently cutting back and forth from one year to another, to create a dramatic arc.

Kiarostami's characteristic mannerism of showing just one side of a conversation, ignoring the convention of cutting back and forth between speakers, is as startling and perplexing as ever.

You watch videos of ministers or their opponents reciting a fib, cross-cutting back and forth: then you find the true figuring laid out clear as day.

In motion his fingers working the flute, his eyes cutting back and forth the figure is oddly beautiful and a little disquieting.