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Sentence Examples Fortunately, I thought to look back in time to see the morning sunlight dappling its northern face. I can look back and see my breaking points as well as the points where I started to put myself back together. At any rate, that is how they look back on their decision some thirty years later. So using New Year's as a theme for this article, it's time to take a look back ten years ago. As long as we don't get a double-dip downturn, investors may look back on this quarter as a turning point. Normally when discussing the history of spam, we look back to a lawyer who spammed newsgroups about 10 years ago. The show's animating principle, that O'Briain wants to look back from his deathbed on a life well lived, is equally admirable. It has spawned a generation who look back upon a single act, abstracted from its consequences, as determinative of salvation. During the first watch of the night he acquired the power to look back through his previous existences, recalling them in full detail. Then I look back at the mountain, but the clouds have descended and the buttresses have disappeared. We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. In 2004 American policy makers can look back to the lessons learned in Europe and Asia over the past half-century. Now that my children are 13 and 8, I look back happily on the days when I had a nursling in my bed. After the closing credits have rolled, look back on the words and actions of some of the protagonists, and you'll see that they make no sense. We all did stuff at university that we look back upon rosily but we realise we don't really want to do it again. I am pleased that we have a Hansard that records these words, because in time I will be able to look back and say I was right. From that point they did not look back and went on to a convincing 81-53 victory. We look back at the stiff-necked Victorians with a smug sense of superiority. It was certainly disappointing at the time, but, omigosh, it was really thrilling when we get an opportunity to look back on it. Some might look back on the hungry years and embrace the onrush of fame with relief, but not our man. Show More Sentences Now he can hold his head high and look back with pride on the 229 wickets which made him the eighth most successful bowler in England's history. Upon what in their historical tradition can they safely look back as a guide or a help? As a working artist, when I look back on my early work I look at a rough draft of myself. I can look back on them with fond memories long after my professors' disjointed ramblings have faded from my mind. My life feels chaotic, but when I look back over things, I see a shape that I didn't realise was there at the time. On the trail, charging forward at the front of their expedition, the old man had barely bothered to look back at them. Many times I look back in hindsight and think of how I should have handled a situation. Nowadays we look back in horror, realising that film is an art form, possessing its own history. Those of us with long political memories tend to look back at events of the past and expect history to repeat itself. But it is worth first pausing to look back, however briefly and superficially, over a longer sweep. Sometimes when I look back on my life as a child or young adolescent, it is through the eyes of a bemused observer. Only in 20 years will we be able to look back on any of these events and see their collective effect on global politics. Right at the front of the bow one can look back along both the upper port and lower starboard sides of the hull. He advises folklorists to look back to ancient literature and classicists to look forward to folklore methods. His voice had ice in it, but he didn't even look back, he just kept on going. It would be embarrassing to look back and realise that I had put my idiotic thoughts up in a public place. When you look back on past romances, do you ever wonder what you saw in a former lover? I think a lot of us can look back and think that a lot of it is full of impermanency and things that haven't added up to anything really. When the frenzy is behind us, we will look back incredulously at the wreckage of failed ventures and wonder, Who funded these companies? We can look back at events through history and determine exactly how they came about. Show More Sentences Take a look back at some of the events, ideas and innovations that brought us here. It is interesting to look back on one's own early fumbling attempts, and I have highlighted my mistakes as well as lessons I learned from them. So in what I hope will become an annual tradition, I will precede any prospect list with a look back at the finds of the draft. As I look back on decades of chairing parish and diocesan meetings, the book's purpose hits home. I wonder if in years to come I will look back and rue an opportunity missed? When contemporary historians look back on Genoa in 20 years' time, will they find a smidgen of significance in these events? I hope that future generations will look back on this debate with astonishment and shame. We had such a wonderful day and can no longer look back on our memories on the film, which put a bit of a dampener on things. You know those magic moments in your music appreciation history that you constantly look back on? If you look back in history, the Greek statues of beautiful women would be considered rather full-figured by today's standards. She turned to look back and stepped in an empty space where the board had fallen away. I never know what to write and even if I can get something down, a few months down the line I look back and think why did I write that? When I look back at the way I dressed, I think I looked part vagabond and part ragamuffin. There were white geese by the water, there's a pale scar of limestone if you look back, no snow but snowdrops, and then Rievaulx. When I look back it disgusts me that I was on so little money just because I was too young to qualify for the minimum wage. Such pupils look back on their schooldays with gratitude and feel a strong loyalty to their old school. This was not a school rife with racial tensions, nor was it a failing school, and I look back on it fondly. Each time I turned in terror to look back I nearly jumped out of my skin anticipating what I might see. Future generations will surely look back and laugh grimly at this catastrophic moral and intellectual failure. People can pass it down to their children and they can look back at their parents with pride. Show More Sentences I hope she'll look back and realise there were 10 other people in that house who all thought she was the bee's knees. I chuckle and look back to where my ancestors, several hundred years ago, began learning to do math. Artists and creators need to look back in their roots and past, and then create the future. This was all of course when I was the better part of twelve, and it is something I can look back on now with fond amusement. Now she couldn't look back and remember those times without forcing back tears, or battling a melancholy wave of sadness. But I'd like a report twenty years or so from now, when you may well look back on this time as a golden age. As I look back on the last five years, I wonder at what would have happened had we chosen different paths. It is, no doubt, the wont of every generation to look back at the past with an over-egged fondness and to be too damning of current standards. At this point it is interesting to look back and consider which we regard as his cleverest clue. Written when Strauss was dying and first performed posthumously, they look back with profound contentment over his life and his marriage. You look back at the last two or three years, you have a short memory, so you think it will always be thus. But a future I may yet look back on these days at halcyon, from a fog of new employment legislation and eviscerated social spending. Without a look back at their victim, the jaguars split up and took off in opposite directions along the alley. Many women who were once prostitutes shudder when they look back on their experience. If I try to make eye contact with people, then they will look back and there may be a spark of recognition, maybe not. Considering he's only three, I better keep popping the Advils and never look back. Walk over to the southwest corner of the courtyard and look back at the moon gate. I look back at the passengers, some of whom are blinking trying to work out what his issue is. As I look back at those old strips, I see some pretty dumb simplemindedness. As I look back on my youth, growing up in Santa Monica, California, I can identify three defining moments in creating my political ideology. Show More Sentences We must hope that when we all come to look back, after a decent interval, we shall not regret our lack of interest. Then, satisfied that I had struck a blow for humanity, I turned and walked away, never stopping to look back. Maybe the rain brings more blue mood for me and a three year anniversary reminds me to look back to see what happened in the days before. The views from the house are fantastic, though if you look back at old family photographs you see that it once was quite an isolated building. I look back at the woman, who was shivering despite her bobble hat and jacket. As the nation waits on Florida, Bruce Morton takes a look back at past presidential transitions that have not always been clear-cut. The humour may be quintessentially eighteenth-century, but, representationally, these sheets not only look back to Mantegna but forward to Degas. There are very few people who do not look back to the past with a sense of longing or forward to the future with a sense of unease. Instead, his look of irritation and slight anger remained, making her quickly look back down to the paper. The soldiers were hurriedly leaving the scene, their muskets over their shoulders, not even sparing a look back at the panicked crowd. Who of us cannot look back on our growing up years and see how our parents influenced us by both nature and nurture? Win or lose, all the players, when they look back on the tournament, must find it an irreplaceably valuable experience. We look back on to the snow-capped hills bathed in the rosy light of the dawn. Today, when I look back on my years of sobriety and see how the Lord has changed me, I am happy and proud of who I have become. So in 1,000 years time they'll look back on this period as being part of the Dreamtime, and I'm recording what's happening now for our future generations. We look back and remember the many authors who died this year, from Gore Vidal to Nora Ephron, from Ray Bradbury to Adrienne Rich. And I admit I look back on my teenage self and think a lot of my angst sounds like an Onion article. As I look back, I feel that I was not really walking my talk. His politics are jaw-droppingly simplistic for the most part, particularly from about the 15th film onwards, and yet you look back at them with great affection. Who can now look back on his career and deem it worthy of admiration? Show More Sentences One must look back to the early 1930s to find such a dramatic reversal. Either fondly or with curses, it is a time to look back at a year grown familiar to us now. Howie, we're in New York with Mayor Rudy Giuliani, to look back at the windup of the presidential primary season and to look ahead to Gore versus Bush. Next time you're out to dinner, order the most expensive meal, excuse yourself to the ladies' room, slip out the kitchen door and never, ever, look back. What do you think when you look back on the early '90s, Are You Gonna Go My Way-era Lenny, with the dreadlocks and snarl? You might want to look back over some of those 2008 margins before you settle into your easy chair tonight. Are future historians going to look back on the past weekend as the one in which Elizabeth Warren took over the Democratic Party? You turn to look back at the ridge overlooking your village. After my assignation in the piney woods, I lit out and did not look back. It was like Halloween for a decade, and the colors were garish, and the style was just phenomenal for us to look back on. When I reach retirement age, and there isn't anything left, no doubt I'll look back on those buses with a slow burn of annoyance, as I fry up a can of cat food. My eyes were dry and tearless as I took one last look back at the castle. As a Third World postcolonial feminist scholar and activist, I look back to my tempestuous teenage years in India, when my heroes were great revolutionaries. But it might, when we look back at the stellar performances young Hollywood produced this year, end up being ridiculous. I shall always look back on our theatricals with exquisite pleasure. He studied the scene memorizing every little detail to look back on later. He was a fast learner, able to look back at his own mistakes and improve. But he heard the entire tale out, then nodded and leaned forward, resting his elbows on his desk to look back and forth between them with those sharp, topaz eyes. We also look back at a riot between trad jazz fans and their modernist rivals at a festival in 1960, and travel to Mali in pursuit of the country's hunter-musicians. I stuff it into my small shoulder bag and look back at the list. Show More Sentences When I look back on my life as a volunteer, there is not one minute I think was wasted or unimportant. He can look back at a career that has involved not only the creation of dozens of ballets, but he was also the chief motivator behind the creation of The Joyce Theater. A look back at his work would reveal a persistent obsession with pain, suffering and the sinisterly hypnotic potential of martyrdom to provoke and inspire. The day ended with a nostalgic look back at how a commission seemingly set up to fail produced a report that became a best seller. Orpheus retrieves Eurydice from the underworld on the condition that he not look back at her shadow until both have emerged from the vale of Avernus. But pause for a second, and look back at what these generations of regulators and lawmakers have created. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, look back into the history. Now that I look back at this he might have been making fun of me for not being able to speak my own language very well, which would have been much more embarrassing. Aaron could only look back at the familiar silvery eyes that had softened, despite the overbearing burliness of the body beneath them, and try and read them. At first glance, her paintings might seem to summon an ancestry in Vasarely or Albers, or to regress even further and look back to Bomberg and the Vorticists. He pulls her out of the car and asks her calmly not to look back. In an ongoing and occasional series, rewind will look back at a television show or film that has proven to resonate. Unfortunately, when we look back over the Army's long history, that condition is not unusual-the bulk of our Army has served in distant outposts throughout most of its years. Anything written on the subject is now a look back at a historical event. We look back now, to the civil rights movements and the female suffrage movements and hold our head in shame at the thought that it took us too long to grant these rights. What are the chavs of today going to look back on with fond memories? In this way, Beatrice serves as Achebe's device to look back at his own earlier novels, as well as the narrativization of Igbo mythology undertaken in those earlier novels. If we look back in to the Old Testament, at books such as Leviticus, we see the word of God that could not possible be conceived as acceptable in modern standards. Very few other nations can look back on more than a century of democratic rule unbroken by dictatorship of the left or right, civil war, military coup or conquest. I was immersed in her from such an early age that when I look back on my growing up all I can see is a cyclone of platinum wigs, hoe-downs and heartache. Show More Sentences You can look back and say, well this did have to be that agonising or that intense in order to plumb the depths, in order to reach the dark night of the soul. When I hear a soft coo, I look back and see him step out the window. A covey of sprightly grey partridge look back and trundle on. In a week or three, I'll look back on what I've been writing recently and I'll either cringe with embarrassment or just be totally baffled by what was going on in my head. Do you ever have a frisson when you look back at your early work? Feeling almost giddy with relief, Mary kept her head held high as she walked, not permitting herself to give into the feeling to look back as she went. It seemed to look back at her mockingly, and eventually, she realized that she didn't have enough malice to withstand such devilry and took her defeat gracefully. Ulverston Ladies Hockey Club can look back upon a memorable season, having achieved the double of winning both the Netherwood and Cumbria leagues. Indigenous Peoples look back to the Dreaming to explain this mystery. We need to look back further into the past to find the cause of these problems. Square eyes Dixon of Dock Green Each week we look back at TV's favourite shows. But few of the Liverpool squad will look back with any fondness on what they produced at the Stade Tourbillon. But the home side can look back with pride on a performance that boasted good football and a lot of heart. I look back at the babealicious guy and he's smiling at me, giving me a knowing nod. But to fully understand canid history, and therefore what is happening today, we need to look back even further in time, to the fossil record. It may not look much on paper but how effectively it immediately suggests melancholy, regret, and a pensive look back on what might-have-been. If their actions are bad, look back and inquire into the cause of their backslidings. Al Wakrah managed to take a 6-0 lead in the first five minutes but that proved a false dawn as Al Sadd soon pulled clear, never to look back. To change this paradigm, to move forward, it is critical to look back. We can also look back and see the egalitarianism of the Jesus movement and note the return of patriarchalism in later texts. Show More Sentences As we look back on this event one year later, a panoptic view reveals how the 21 August chemical weapons event changed the narrative on Syria. When you look back at it you think, 'That's pretty dadgum hard and there's not a lot of people that can jump what I just jumped. I reckon many oldtimers regardless of their faith will still look back and bless that building for taking that blast. It is likely future generations will look back at the current debate over smoking in cars carrying children with similar bemusement. It is easy to look back on the past through rose-colored glasses and to rejoice and be thankful for the bounty God provided then. I waul attendees to look back al lite event and be thankful lot their free glass of wine, but also for the je en sais quoi. I also watched a video on YouTube of a guy killing a cape buffalo in 30 seconds with a 125-grain, 2-blade broadhead, and that's when I made the switch and will not look back. Still, one cannot completely ignore the differences in the nature of the paper trail the two sets of rules give us if and when we want to look back at a particular decision. I look back on my years working at Redcliffis with much notalgia and I am very proud to have been part of the dedicated team of staff who worked there. When Drumm was led out of court he did not look back at his wife Lorraine, who appeared emotional at times, or at the reporters stationed in the jury box across from him. Gone were the boredoms and claustrophobias of Parliament, the discomforts and pains of high-speed coach travel, however he might later look back on them. Although the Nordic countries look back on more than 1,000 years of history as distinct political entities, the international boundaries came late and emerged gradually. She whispered the spell that would unenchant the small patch of moss and rose, never bothering to look back to see if the ground recovered its formerly unbroken surface. Examples from Classical Literature I look back upon it as a beautiful, unshadowed dream out of doors or in a pleasant house where everybody loved me. She did not look back once, then, nor as she clomb the long slope to her home. Some day, when I am rich and famous, I shall look back on all this with regret. We do not look back to the antiquity of the world, but to the babyhood of the world. To look back at all is to meet the apparitional and to find in its ghostly face the silent stare of an appeal. The glacialist who can look back over the last twenty-five years of wordy conflict has every reason to be jubilant and hopeful. It is strange to look back and recall with what blitheness we prepared to leave. As I look back on it, it strikes me I always have been more or less of a drifter. If you'll look back at your water gauge you'll see that there are only a few inches of water left in your boiler. Then she kept turning to look back at old camelback Mountain, until it, too, faded from sight in the fading day. But it is to the suppressor of this movement, rather than to its leader, that the Roumanians look back as their national hero. It is droll to look back upon the movement which led public opinion to prefer a stockjobber to a gallant soldier. Duane did not look back again till he had crossed the ridgy piece of ground and had gotten to the level road. It is amusing to look back on some of the lines of apologetics in recent years. He did not look back, but he seemed to see the shadower on his trail. I can look back on my sicknesses as the best times of my life. Jip would bark and caper round us, and go on before, and look back on the landing, breathing short, to see that we were coming. But this was no misty-eyed look back at the early-80s electro pioneers' career. With the announcement there is to be a new Carry On film, Hannah Davies takes a look back at the series' racy heyday. But it was our inconsequentiality and stupidity that especially distresses me when I look back upon that life in the long ago. Show More Sentences I shall always look back on that time of mental awakening as one of the happiest in my life. It was so precious to me that I look back on these trifles, now, with an aching heart. The ship's cook is not a man to look back on his rescue with the feeling of unmitigated satisfaction which animates his companions in trouble. Thus John Endicott was a man of multifarious business, and had no time to look back regretfully to his native land. Historians will look back on this era as a time that reshaped American views of economics. Here had lived an elder race, to which we look back with disquietude. What a time it seems to look back since we parted in old Edina. But even so, I look back upon them as some of the happiest weeks in my life. It troubled me sorely to see her looking back, at the beginning of her career, just as I look back at the end of mine. He is so intent on getting along unseen that even the apparition of a stranger in whole garments does not tempt him to look back. Our grandchildren's grandchildren will look back on smoking as if it was the Black Death. He found that he could look back upon the brass and bombast of his earlier gospels and see them truly. Now, as I look back, I think it was sheer priggishness to resist so human and yet so reverent an impulse. Trippers could either look down from 500ft or look back from the end of North Pier from 1,400 feet. He saw him turn round fifty paces away and look back at him still standing there. It went hard enough with me then, when I could look back to no period at which I had enjoyed a sufficiency. At thirty a man should look back with tenderness, forward with hope. He didn't bother to look back to see if the Messerschmitt was on his tail. Maybe these unsmooth transitions are intended to illustrate how difficult it is for him to look back into his past? Eric has come back to visit Ern for a reflective look back at their life and comedy partnership. Show More Sentences As I look back at the endeavor of those days much of it seems mere purblind groping, wilful and wandering. Now that I look back I am more than ever impressed by Stroeve's acuteness. She did not look back now, but went on and on, thinking of the blue-grass meadow that she had traversed when a little child, believing that it had no beginning and no end. Her eldest child, now descending the stairs by her side, was the mirror in which she could look back and see again the reflection of her own youth. Instead of which, appalling alike to us who look back and to those that lived at the time, capitalism, rotten-ripe, sent forth that monstrous offshoot, the Oligarchy. Today, with the Entente Cordiale and numerous allied operations to our credit, we can all look back on Waterloo as an event which mirrors the heroism of our armed forces. What I look back at with amazement is the situation I accepted. It was quite cathartic and in the end it was nice to finish with a performance I am proud of, and I can look back in years and think that I did as well as I could do. When La Folle had slowly and cautiously mounted the many steps that led up to the veranda, she turned to look back at the perilous ascent she had made. Sylmar senior Jay Montes and the Palisades High golf team brought a familiar look back to the City Section championship Wednesday at Griffith Park. I had long come to look back upon my pilgrimage as a sort of Indian-summer youth, being, as the reader can reckon for himself, just on thirty-seven. Then, stopping to look back once or twice, he slunk off among the bushes to the right of me, and I heard the swish of the fronds grow faint in the distance and die away. I always look back to our boat cruises, and my land journeys, when through unfrequented countries, with an extreme delight, which no scenes of civilization could have created. In our tercentenary year, as we look back on the changes of the last 300 years, we can now be confident we are securing this building for use by future generations. He does not look back before disappearing, with a wavering step. The lady colored, paid the look back with interest, and slowly walked on. Find more words! 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