Sentence examples for grown backwards from inspiring English sources

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If, as a young man, you left a beloved wife behind, when she arrives in Elsewhere, you've grown backwards to 17 and have fallen in love with someone else..

His solo musical career began in earnest with Rei Momo (1989), which drew on Afro-Latin styles; other solo releases include Uh-Oh (1992), Feelings (1997), and Grown Backwards (2004).

Byrne's 2004 album, "Grown Backwards," was a modest success, selling nearly a hundred and fifty thousand copies, and he estimates that, after recording costs and other expenses, his net profit was about fifty-eight thousanotdollars, not including royalties.

Consequence of Sound's review notes continuity between this album and Byrne's 2004 release Grown Backwards, while The Village Voice has declared this album "more expansive and adventurous" than anything else Byrne has released in decades and Greg Kot of The Chicago Tribune wrote that the album features "one of the strongest vocal performances of Byrne's career".

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They knew something was badly wrong – after all, as Ron puts it, "Children don't grow backwards".

The American critic Manny Farber rebuked Truffaut for weighting things in favour of his poor, persecuted heroes, and dismissed him as a man whose theme was growing backwards into childhood, "all seem reduced to some unreal innocence of childhood myths".

It is the poem where the struggle between pure lament and the search for comfort in images seems most intense: The door was open and the house was dark Wherefore I called his name, although I knew The answer this time would be silence That kept me standing listening while it grew Backwards and down and out into the street Where as I'd entered (I remember now) The streetlamps too were out.

But kids don't grow backwards, they grow forward, and their development is unique and uneven.

"Our generation grew up backwards," Mr. Eugenides said.

The last time there was even a threat of default back in 2011, we know that the economy did not grow, it went backwards during that quarter.

I have since grown and I have realized that such backwards attitudes don't help anyone.

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