Sentence examples for glance backward at from inspiring English sources
Instead of casting a wistful glance backward at all the species we've left in the dust I.Q.-wise, it implicitly asks what the real costs of our own intelligence might be.
Nor is it for anyone who insists that jazz belongs strictly to the Americans, or that it glances backward at its own peril.
It boasts an array of sublime backdrops and a yearning score, but the climate of feeling is anxious and inward, encapsulated in Stiller's darting gaze, and the movie itself keeps glancing backward, at the lost and the obsolete.
We stepped on the gas, passed the lady, flung a glance backward, and waved at her, but she looked at us coldly.
This glance backward proved refreshing in unexpected ways.
(In many of the pieces, there is a sense of glancing backward through a porthole at an India of the memory, an imaginary homeland disappearing on the horizon). The boredom and ennui of this world are also a rich seam for this writing, and many of the authors represented here show a fascination for small lives, pettily lived, often amid momentous events.
The set glances backward in other ways, too.
I kept moving, but glanced backward.
Standing backward at the lip of the sinkhole, I glanced over my shoulder to the bottom and to the Rio Camuy 200 feet below.
The film's "rondo of love" represents both a backward glance at the best of the past and a forward glance into the cinema's future.
