Sentence examples for moves backward into from inspiring English sources

Though this novel lacks the sexual and romantic tension that helped spark "Dragon Tattoo" — Salander and Blomkvist share few scenes here — it boasts an intricate, puzzlelike story line that attests to Mr. Larsson's improved plotting abilities, a story line that simultaneously moves backward into Salander's traumatic past, even as it accelerates toward its startling and violent conclusion.

The brake fins in the launch section are mounted to keep fast-moving trains from moving backward into the station.

The second installment, "The Girl Who Played With Fire," attested to the author's improved plotting abilities, moving backward into the past even as it accelerated toward a vicious and violent conclusion.

But his setting was not static: gradually he peeled away the thornier aspects of his sound world, effectively moving backward into the tonal world of the late 19th century (but not going quite as far back as Bach's time).

Those growing up on one side of the curtain, the one represented by the new technology, cannot move backward into the previous technology any more than a person who discovers double-stuffed Oreos can ever go back to eating single-stuffed.

They don't need a shadow of their darkest self telling them that they are wrong, that they should move backward into silence and guilt once more.

Mr. Zabala moves backward in a sitting position.

The action, such as it is, moves backward through the biography and delves into the relationship between science and art (not to mention the prehistory of opera), ending with the infant Galileo watching a performance of a work composed by his father, Vincenzo Galileo.

As the book moves forward, the narrator moves backward.

Harvey speaks so slowly, I felt like I was suddenly thrust into a pre-Enlightenment, post-Hopi notion of chronological structure in which time literally moves backward.

"Time advances, but life moves backward," he says.