Obsessions and fixations were as common as brilliant chains of reasoning, and every step forward seemed to be countered by two steps sideways and a half step back.
It quickly became clear to me that coaches ranged from psychodynamically oriented, empathetic types — who had simply taken two steps sideways from therapy — to unreconstructed, up-by-your-bootstraps behaviorists like Goldsmith.
It quickly became clear to me that coaches ranged from psychodynamically oriented, empathetic types who had simply taken two steps sideways from therapy to unreconstructed, up-by-your-bootstraps behaviorists like Goldsmith.
I was becoming aware that I was playing a game where each move was one step forward for a colonial government and two complicated steps sideways for the inherent self-governing rights of my people and kin.
But before you can ski, you have to master the basics: sliding forward on one ski, sliding forward on the other, holding your poles, taking baby steps sideways up hills, and learning the snowplough, always the snowplough.
It inches you into the difficult drama two steps backward, one sideways.
A few steps sideways and the geometric pattern shifted and lost its symmetry.
I was fending her off with one hand and stepping sideways while trying to keep the mike out of her reach while I finished the last poem.
The farmstead consisted of three linked buildings that "stepped sideways down the hillside, the roofs a little lower each time".
Then, draw a map filled with dangers - "here be dragons" and "blood-sucking quicksand" are always winners - and silly instructions like "walk two steps forward and one step back, hop five times to your left then jump sideways".
I guess you'd say it's a step sideways".
