I sit back from my laptop and rest my back onto chair, I look up at the sun in the sky and dream about the thousands of busy classrooms full of loyal, talented teachers and other classrooms.
At one point in the evening, I sat back slightly from the table, almost an external observer, in order to enjoy the cordial discussion among the leaders of the largest industrial countries in the world.
Then, feeling exhausted, I sat back, and my gaze, detached from the medicine, rose to meet Lihn's, which seemed to be saying, No comment, it's bad enough having to swallow this concoction every three hours, don't go looking for symbolic meanings — the water, the onion, the slow march of the stars.
"Kelly, our caseworker Susan just called me; the children are going back to live with their mother tomorrow". After leaving the message on my wife's answering machine, I sat back in my chair, disheartened from the conversation I had with the children's caseworker.
So I sat back and stewed, the wails continuing from both babies.
"So when I heard what he said I sat back and waited for the e-mails from the people who know me, who have worked with me".
Late Tuesday night, Ms. Allen sat back from the television and played with her hair pensively.
My mother's house was a dignified Colonial that sat back from the road, behind a pine tree that had been mostly denuded by Hurricane Agnes and an anemic cherry tree that would soon collapse onto the den.
Thus in the case of literature, there are many places of indeterminacy at the level of character and plot — unlike in the case of real people, it is often simply indeterminate what a literary character had for breakfast, how far she sat back from the table, what the table was made of, etc.
Instead, I sit back and from another floor he commandeers my computer, pushing my cursor around, opening and closing programs until the problem is solved.
