Sentence examples for reader back and forth from inspiring English sources
"Both stories whizz the reader back and forth in time".
Mr. Cox said Ziff Davis is continuing a strategy that tries to bounce the reader back and forth between its magazines and its Web sites.
In his early fiction Ouvert la nuit (1922; Open All Night), Fermé la nuit (1923; Closed All Night), and Lewis et Irène (1924; Lewis and Irene)—he borrowed the cinematic techniques of rapid scene changing and transported the reader back and forth from one capital to another.
Maslin leads the reader back and forth in time weaving a web of clues to follow, luring us into the history of the castle in the 19th century as the events of the past seep into the lives of Katy, Leo and the rest of the gang in the present.
Mavis Gallant, in her latest collection of stories, Across the Bridge, shuttled her readers back and forth across the fine line between ordinary goodness and ordinary evil, revealing the horror that can unexpectedly erupt from lives of limited expectations, while Evelyn Lau's Fresh Girls and Other Stories uncovered the same dreary wickedness in more grotesque forms.
Konigsburg bounces readers back and forth between the journeys that led to each character's selection and the Souls' surprising success as they move from competition against their fellow sixth-graders, to a school-wide match-up, to a history-making run for intellectual glory.
As currently written, the paper requires the reader to go back-and-forth to understand the logic.
Vertiginously clever crosscutting between episodes (as in Robert Altman's movie "Short Cuts") yields such intricate effects that the reader hopscotches back and forth through the novel's pages in search of missed clues.
"I want to tell it this way," Mattison writes at the outset, as if arguing with the reader, "shifting back and forth in time — for reasons that will become obvious, but also because what interests me most about Con is not exactly that she could remember and learn — who can do that?
Q: (Reader) I've read the back-and-forth on wedding rings with interest, as I spent 26 years in account management on the agency side.
"That context would be helpful to readers trying to understand the back-and-forth," Mr. Curry said.
