Sentence examples for fell upward from inspiring English sources
Mr. Kluver invited some 30 scientists and engineers, most of them his colleagues at Bell Labs, to realize dreamy ideas like snowflakes that fell upward and tennis rackets that gave out sounds like huge temple bells.
That night, beside the lake in the Oregon Cascades, my mind's eye fell upward into a star-filled cosmos vaster than anything I had ever known.
It was like seeing the snow falling upward".
And it is not the yellow curtains behind which fauns and astronauts embrace, behind which flesh crawls in all directions and flickertail squirrels fall upward into the trees.
He was a sophisticated trickster, a bourgeois gentilhomme with a geek inside, hacking into everyday life and planting little weirdness bugs: legs sprouting from shirt collars, rain falling upward, words having lives of their own.
The young Bing suggests a Huck Finn who quickly turns into Tom Sawyer -- it's Huck who floats down the West Coast in that jalopy, but it's Tom who immediately starts falling upward into the tremendous career.
Updrafts and eddies that create uncanny microclimatic effects — a narrow tunnel of visibility from the roof to the street on an otherwise foggy day, rain falling upward against the palm of your hand — will drive the water from a mop sideways or even up across the glass, ruining work that has already been completed.
Indeed, once Crosby got rolling, there were no crises: he shot to the top before he was 30, "having fallen upward every step of his career," Giddins remarks, and he stayed there until rock 'n' roll supplanted his music and the 60's undid the America he epitomized.
Gingrich, let's face it, has fallen upward.
He's been falling upward since his dad helped him get into Harvard with a $2.5 million donation and is now one of the most powerful people in the world because his father-in-law became president.
