Sentence examples for with a backward glance from inspiring English sources

Once again the man suggests flying, and finally the bird does, with a backward glance.

And as for faith in the monetary mechanism to deliver liberal freedoms, Estonia joined the euro as recently as last January, with hardly a backward glance.

Three years later, the console is floundering on around 10m sales while generational rivals PlayStation 4 and Xbox One have shot past with nary a backward glance.

We do not want to read of how the father of Hansel and Gretel abandons them in the woods at the behest of his new wife with scarcely a backward glance.

In such a world, Australia's security – as descendants of an invading force that dispossessed its original owners, with barely a backward glance a mere two centuries ago – is less manifest and incontestable than we might have hoped.

Like the rest of what is no longer exactly new, but is undoubtedly still evolving technology, emails rank high on the list of those developments which with nary a backward glance have destroyed the world as we know it.

It is, inescapably, a speech at odds with itself: a backward glance that impels forward motion; an election-year pitch that strives for statesmanship; a speech that acknowledges that power is receding yet projects enough "energy in the executive," as Alexander Hamilton put it in Federalist No. 70, to finish the job.

With barely a backward glance, she dismisses me to begin the long drive back to Chicago.

With hardly a backward glance, I set my sights on a career in math and physics where I was encouraged to question authority.

"Not a bad day," the man tells me with certainty and without a backward glance.

With Trilling's help, Kirsch transforms a backward glance into a forward step.