I could tell you a story about a boy who was always small and thin, who felt invisible inside his baggy clothes, and so he retreated, shoulders hunched protectively forward, making incessant jokes about his own "wimpiness".
Did I imagine or did I see Van Johnson, the actor, a camel's-hair coat over his shoulders, retreating down the gangplank backward, waving?
His retreating, over-the-shoulder, backhand no-look put-away is Federer-like.
The hand came out of the pocket and reached for her shoulder, but retreated when her shoulder shrank back.
I was still mumblingly trying to make out if she was just another Halcion hallucination when Count Ugo, quick as a retreating Italian army, leapt to offer his aristocratic shoulders and neck to her ministrations.
It is found that with an increase of the radial distance, the locations of peak and valley values of heat generation rate at the shoulder-workpiece contact interfaces vary from the retreating side (RS) to the advancing side (AS) and from the AS to the RS, respectively.
But Anna doesn't have to glance over her shoulder anymore: she has escaped the secrecy and lies by succumbing to a nervous collapse, retreating into a catatonic state.
He can remember retreating to his mobile home after the final race in Homestead, Fla., and feeling as if a 5,000-pound 5,000-poundbeen lifted off his shoulders.
Then it began retreating.
