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The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure. Ross MacDonald

Backward Run Detective Entire Structure Through Surprise Tragic Up Vibrations Which Should Novel Set

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists. Stephen Fry

You Seen Backward Know Doing Exists Infant Clothing Why

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time. Syd Barrett

Time Path Backward My Time Mostly Just Waste Treading

During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too. Adam Garcia

Good Dance Laughter First Too Backward Out Tried Followed Only Cast Perform Over Most Audience Falling End Up Roll Ended Fever Them Act Saturday Portion Saturday Night Night Number

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song. Alicia Keys

Learning Song Writing First Favorite Backward Take Songs Learn Around Experimenting Them Then Chords Play Twist

The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward. Bob Beauprez

Backward Obama Direction Only Economy Moving

Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot. Bobby Jindal

I began using the #smallacts hashtag on Twitter shortly after the 2016 election as a way to resist. To resist the intolerance growing in our nation, to resist an upcoming administration that I believe threatens to pull us backward and strip rights from those already marginalized. Celeste Ng

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations. Charles E. Wilson

People Living Our Drastically Backward Some Crop Case Partial Countries Mass Failures Prosperous Reduced May Subsistence Nations Where Aftermath Certainly Standard Wars Level

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward. Dalai Lama

Freedom Democracy World Liberty Later Trends Way Backward Individual Individual Freedom Sooner Sooner Or Later Along Go Cannot China

When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him. Daniel Cormier

Me Back Backward Run Tries See Guys Johnson Allow He Nobody Him Makes How Go Bullies Bully Hit Hits Front Going Them Then Stand Traps Away Right Watch Right Back

No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking. Daniel Gilbert

Future Happy Hell Thinking Our Strive Backward Criticized Seems Cast Somewhat No-One Glance Likes Make Course Were Wonder Selves Them Then Successfully Avoid Disparaging Reasonable Things

You don't want to have a good couple of years, come through the Championship, have a good first year in the Premier League and then not play in the Premier League for another year or so because that is a backward step. Danny Ings

Good You First Year Backward Through Step League Come Couple Another Because Years Want Then Premier Premier League Play Championship

I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times. David Tang

Great You Long Machine Backward Fax About Fondness Could Onto Terribly Still iPads Times Move Eventually Technological

For so long, the world has viewed West Indian culture as semiliterate and backward, which it is not. In my work, I have tried to give that world an exposure so the world can better understand it. Derek Walcott

Work Culture World Better Long Backward Tried Indian Indian Culture Give Understand West Which Viewed Exposure

There are lines of geomagnetic force running through the Earth's crust, and most of the time, these run in opposing directions - forward and backward. In some places, they deviate and will cross each other, and when that happens, you kind of get a geomagnetic mess going in all different directions. I call these vertices. Diana Gabaldon

Time You Will Opposing Other Earth Backward Kind Run Running Some Cross Directions Through Deviate Crust Most Mess Force Call Lines Get Going Different Happens Places Different Directions Forward Each

I keep telling these millennials it's all about them to get into politics and start making things happen. They don't care about whether or not someone is gay. They don't care to see contraception taken away or want to even discuss it. They're going forward, not backward. Donna Brazile

Politics Gay Care Backward Telling See About Someone Taken Making Contraception Discuss dont Care Get Going Want Happen Whether Them Forward Even Keep Away Millennials Things Things Happen Start

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction. Dorothy Hamill

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. Dorothy L. Sayers

Age Youth Believe Backward Paradoxical Must Seem Look May Forward

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