Sentence examples for dances backwards from inspiring English sources

However, the Coen brothers let him come up with a lot of his own ideas for the character, like shining the bowling ball and the scene where he dances backwards, which he says was inspired by Muhammad Ali.

The increasingly shopworn tropes – sunsets, whispery voiceovers, young women in floaty dresses dancing puckishly ahead of men, occasionally turning round to dance backwards – are here applied to Tinseltown LA, where a screenwriter called Rick (Christian Bale) undergoes the least interesting spiritual crisis in history.

Pedantically introduced by the voice of John Gielgud reading from The Pilgrim's Progress, this is a very familiar montage-melange of images and ideas: the sunsets, the whispery voiceovers, the bewitching (but in narrative terms entirely disposable) young women in floaty dresses dancing puckishly ahead of the man, occasionally turning round to dance backwards.

The girls were the ones who danced backwards".

Dancing Backwards is a delightful read - comic, sad, tender and utterly engrossing.

Jean goes on, "Took the Count to the station, and then just stopped in the barn to take a look, really, and she's dancing with the gamekeeper, but leading like she's the man, around and around with him trying to dance backwards".

The dog, Harriot Skiffle King ("he's always smiling, and would work all day if you let him", the judge read approvingly) danced backwards round a lamppost, then mimed urinating on it without actually producing any urine (for which he would have been penalised).

I know all good channel surfers will pause long enough to watch Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed dance backwards into the pool of their school gym or cringe as Ralphie's friend is triple-dog-dared into putting his tongue on that frozen metal pole.

You should be able to dance backwards to the way they dance, as fast as they can and as well as they can before you move on.

If you watch a video while doing the dance, make sure it is the mirrored version, or you will be learning the dance backwards!

In short, his claim is that, because dance criticism is based on dance practice and performance, to use it to understand dance gets things backwards.