Sentence examples for drawing inward from inspiring English sources

Whereas her Odette often appeared to be shyly drawing inward, Ms. McKerrow made her steps grow sharper as Odile, especially in her glittering Black Swan pas de deux.

Even if I didn't believe it at first, every time I said "opening", I could feel myself drawing inward and permitting the work of the contractions just a little more, in spite of the midwives' ringing cellphones and their frequent checks of the baby's heartbeat and my pulse, blood pressure and temperature.

For the president, the legacy of the blowup over Mr. Wright in 2008 has been a drawing inward and greater caution on matters relating to race.

Yet often Lithgow draws inward even as he rages, almost vanishing behind his bushy white beard.

Sometimes passers-by are also drawn inward, where they occasionally buy a painting.

Nightfall inverts the park: the cliffs draw inward, and the sky becomes almost topographical, a canyon turned upside down.

The effort of puffing tobacco smoke thru the waterlogged filter caused his cheeks to be drawn inward.

His face, blunt and drawn inward, was now and then seized by spasms, and his body, boggy and soft, was racked by jerky, purposeless movements.

For many patients with chronic medical conditions like depression, pain or diabetes, the pattern is predictable: The more they suffer, the more they draw inward.

Even as Americans signal a desire to draw inward, however, they appear sensitive to the nation's growing vulnerability to attacks on its computer systems.

A figure skater spins faster, or has a greater angular velocity ω, when the arms are drawn inward, because this action reduces the moment of inertia I while the product Iω, the skater's angular momentum, remains constant.