Sentence examples for leaping back and forth from inspiring English sources

When the cast is earthbound, this enjoyable but trivial musical generally is, too, leaping back and forth across the line between spoofery and sincerity in depicting the rituals and rivalries of school life.

You expect to have to work a bit with a Christopher Nolan film, but this long, slow tease of a movie, leaping back and forth in time as you expect from the Memento man, left me cold.

That could get scary, but the movie loses any chance of establishing a mood by leaping back and forth between the 70's and early 80's, "forever stumbling over itself and breaking its own spell" (Stephen Holden).

Like the desert rat, revered for its ability to launch itself "as if on wings, from its match-thin hind legs," Moore moved by leaping back and forth between the physical and the abstract, as in the conclusion to "Nevertheless": The weak overcomes its menace, the strong over- comes itself.

The plot leaps back and forth across multiple timelines as the nature of Heidi's work is revealed.

It leaps back and forth in time, looking forward to the boys' adulthood and back again, nostalgically, as they grow up.

Written in a mishmash of typefaces, its chapters alternately sprawling over 60 or 70 pages or just a couple of lines, "Imperial" leaps back and forth in time and geography like a maddened ping-pong ball.

Ms. Rowlands's Allie is quieter and sadder, but she looks too well-preserved for a woman in her condition, and as the story leaps back and forth, the movie veers between unbleached sugar and artificial sweetener.

Mr. Gyngell's ability to leap back and forth between his official and unofficial selves was nimble, but also praiseworthy was the playwright's elliptical language and his almost Cubist approach to reality.

"What the Bleep Do We Know!?," a spaced-out concoction of quasi physics and neuroscience that appeared several years ago, promised moviegoers that they could hop between parallel universes and leap back and forth in time — if only they cast off their mental filters and experienced reality full blast.

Literal and figurative trochees and rhythms are what she reports in her patchwork book, which leaps back and forth from the Baltimore of her childhood to the 1996 Republican National Convention in San Diego to a revealing 1997 meeting with Bill Clinton in the Oval Office that she characterizes as "jazz".