Sentence examples for draw back a little from inspiring English sources
As the movie observes Martin's precipitous decline and Barbara's increasingly desperate attempts to forestall the inevitable, you want to shake her out of her state of denial and tell her to grit her teeth, draw back a little and accept the inevitable.
James drew back a little, as if the question were not just impertinent, but actively preposterous.
"Room to Dream" pulls off a neat trick in drawing back a curtain and revealing relatively little.
At the beginning, he says, his sources were lobby journalists, who "would go, 'No, it's really like this – and draw back the curtain a little bit.
The letter was politically charged because it seemed to draw back the curtain, if only a little, on the carefully stage-managed public appearances of Mr. Putin on state television, often built around ostensibly official tasks.
Thus, microdosing requires a steady hand and a good sense of feel, and a lot of practice; you have to sense the tip of the needle piercing the wall of the vein, and draw back the plunger to get a little bit of blood so you know you're in.
Her Juliet vibrates to Romeo's touch, even as she draws back from it a little, as if saddened by the realization that she has never even dreamed of such pleasures before — and why not?
Not so with Louis C.K., who drew back the curtain a little bit on Tuesday's "Tonight Show" and revealed how he once squashed Jimmy Fallon's chances of getting hired on the the short-lived "Dana Carvey Show" back in the 1990s.
But Neagle (7-6) toied to make an adjustment on his mechanics, drawing back his right shoulder a little bit more as he turned to throw the ball, and he fell apart.
