Sentence examples for is running backward from inspiring English sources

Outside Madonna's apartment, Christopher Walken, as some sort of angel of death, looks at his watch, which is running backward.

It's odd, then, that given all this hurtling life force, this hard-won happiness, my strongest impression of O'Faolain is that she is running backward -- toward the defeated mother of her childhood and toward the Ireland of the past, a desolate country of broken men and broken women.

Then it hits you: The video is running backward.

The clock is running backward, counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds.

"Your meter is running backward and reducing the bill," he says.

As they walked on and on, it seemed as though time were running backward.

It's almost as if we're all in a movie that's running backward, like "Memento".

NOT so long ago, the National Debt Clock, perched above the Avenue of the Americas, a block east of Times Square, was running backward.

But the country's economic picture has gotten much rosier -- so much so that since June, the clock has been running backward to reflect the decreasing debt.

To mirror the dream world quality of the lyrics, Mr. Harrison devised a solo guitar line, wrote out its notes in reverse order and overdubbed it onto a recording of the song that was running backward.

"Artaud was famous for having invented a new language for this theater piece," Miles writes, "but no one was quite prepared for what they heard: 'Islsshle dkslishs mmskiels dakjdllai.' "It took them more than 20 minutes to realize the tape was running backward.