And by a skillful and unobtrusive use of imagery ( the enclosure is called a `` Roman-camp stockade '', the hastily erected lean-to is a `` Babylonian hovel '', the men begin to look like `` Peruvian mummies '' and to acquire `` Gothic faces '' ), Malraux projects a fresco of human endurance -- which is also the endurance of the human -- stretching backward into the dark abyss of time.

* In Divine Comedy ( Inferno, Canto XX ), Dante sees Tiresias in the fourth pit of the eighth circle of Hell ( the circle is for perpetrators of fraud and the fourth pit being the location for astrologers, sorcerers, soothsayers, diviners, and false prophets who claim to see the future when they couldn't ) He was condemned to walk for eternity with his head twisted toward his back ; while in life he strove to look forward to the future, in Hell he must only look backward.

:" You can't look forward and backward at the same time.

Neo-soul artists tried to look both backward and forward, acting in the belief that a continuum might exist ".

The facets on the superior processes are concave, and look backward and medialward ; those on the inferior are convex, and are directed forward and lateralward.

The backward condition of shipyards in the seceding states convinced Mallory that he would have to look abroad to obtain the vessels that he thought would be able to challenge the US Navy.

Viewpoints can be set to look forward, backward or at any angle to direction of travel.

The theory of ruin value could be seen as a backward looking concept ; however, what it actually does is look at the types of buildings that survive from the past, understand why they survived, and attempt to build the new buildings of the Reich based on such understanding.

The periscope enabled an observer ( e. g., the tank commander ) to look forward ( upper panel of the picture ) or backward ( lower panel ) without moving his seat.

After gaining super-speed by replicating the electrochemical bath that gave Barry Allen his powers-even undergoing surgery to make himself look like Barry -, he traveled backward in time using the Cosmic Treadmill to meet his hero.

It was a backward look, of course — the first of many love affairs in that direction — but it was a look in the mirror, too .” It was revived and revised by New York City Ballet's balletmasters George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, who both danced, Robbins in the title role, for their 1972 Stravinsky Festival.

After gaining super-speed by replicating the electrochemical bath that gave Barry Allen his powers, losing years of his life in the process-even undergoing surgery to make himself look like Barry-he traveled backward in time using the Cosmic Treadmill to meet his hero.

Critic and sf historian Thomas Clareson has commented that " Planet seemed to look backward towards the 1930s and earlier ", an impression that was strengthened by the extensive use of interior artwork by Frank Paul, who had been the cover artist for the early Gernsback magazines in the 1920s.

Quake did have the option of using the mouse to look / aim / orient (" mouselook ") and the keyboard to move forward, backward and sideways, but it was not the default until Quake III Arena was released.

In addition to focusing algorithms intended to improve reception, many side scan sonars also employ beam steering to look forward and backward to " catch " incoming pulses that would have been missed by a single sidelooking beam.

Proteus describes the descent of Orpheus into the underworld to retrieve Eurydice, the backward look that caused her return to Tartarus, and at last Orpheus ' death at the hands of the Ciconian women.

Ears should work together and look forward or backward.

The common English name comes from the two legs that look as if they are pedaling a bicycle, with one leg going forward to the ball and the other backward to create an opposite moment.

As evidence, he said that we need only look to the U. S. to see where socialism fails, by observing that the most technologically backward areas are those where government owns the means of production.

Roger Waters congratulates either a girl named Luka, or ' hunters ' ( i. e. people who deliberately look for backward messages hidden in songs ) for finding this message, and jokes that she ( or they ) can send her ( or their ) answer to " Old Pink " ( being either a comical reference to Syd Barrett, or a foreshadowing of Pink's eventual insanity ), who lives somewhere in a funny farm ( a term to describe a psychiatric hospital ) in Chalfont.

Another way to understand the stability of cyclic hemiacetals is to look at the equilibrium constant as the ratio of the forward and backward reaction rate.

Yes, I think there probably was, and the Fitzgerald Inquiry probably showed that, but you know something, I respect the heck out of Joh and I think what he put together was a strong government that lasted for years, and so yes I think Joh himself was a man of honour, and I think he tried to act in accordance with his faith, and I don ’ t think we should ever look backward but look forward and take the good things that happened and say, ‘ You know what, we could certainly do a lot worse than leave a legacy similar to what Joh left .’"

As for progress, the `` backward South '' can boast of Baton Rouge, which increased its population between 1940 and 1950 by two hundred and sixty-two percent, to 126,000, the second largest growth of the period for all cities over 25,000.

In 1815 after the Napoleonic Wars, the Kingdom of Prussia took over and the city became one of its most socially and politically backward centres until the end of the 19th century.

A data format is also said to be backward compatible with its predecessor if every message or file that is valid under the old format is also valid, and retains its meaning, under the new.

** The Wii is backward compatible with all games from the Nintendo GameCube, due to its being based on the PowerPC, the same base as the latter ; however, a " Family Edition " model released in North America and Europe in late 2011 removes GameCube support.

Even though each 1541 had its own on board disk controller and disk operating system, it was not possible for a user to command two 1541 drives to copy a disk ( one drive reading and the other writing ) as with older dual drives like the 4040 and 8050 that were often found with the PET computer, and which the 1541 was backward compatible to ( it could read 4040 disks but not write to them since its internal Operating System was essentially the same ).

The backward motion of the cannon as its projectile leaves the bore is termed its recoil and the effectiveness of the cannon can be measured in terms of how much this response can be diminished, though obviously diminishing recoil through increasing the overall mass of the cannon means decreased mobility.

Internet Explorer continues to support its Intermediate DOM for backward compatibility.

Each element may only be influenced by events which are located in the backward light cone of its point in spacetime ( i. e. the past ).

The animal relies on the forward and backward motions of its head and neck to maintain balance and the counter momentum while galloping.

After the war, as the frontier pushed further west, the Appalachian country retained its frontier character, and the people themselves came to be seen as backward, quick to violence, and inbred in their isolation.

Brahms's point of view looked both backward and forward ; his output was often bold in its exploration of harmony and rhythm.

Compared to its use in rugby, laterals and backward passes are generally rare in North American football, due to a much greater focus on ball control in American football strategy ; it is most commonly used as a last-minute desperation strategy or as part of a trick play.

The Segway notices, as it balances, the change in its center of mass, and first establishes and then maintains a corresponding speed, forward or backward.

Combinations with salchows or flips as the second jump may also be achieved by doing a half loop as a connecting jump, because its direct landing edge is a backward inside edge.

In a data transmission circuit a backward channel is the channel that passes data in a direction opposite to that of its associated forward channel.

After his use of " achterlijk " caused an uproar, Fortuyn said he had used the word with its literal meaning of " backward ".

A downward-pointing chevron would mean it belongs to its battalion's first company, a forward-pointing one to the second, upward the third and backward the fourth company.

Trotsky agreed that a new socialist state and economy in a country like Russia would not be able to hold out against the pressures of a hostile capitalist world, as well as the internal pressures of its backward economy.

The flea body is hard, polished, and covered with many hairs and short spines directed backward, which also assist its movements on the host.

In German Social Democratic circles, the general strike suffered from the hereditary taint of its anarchist origins (...) Rosa Luxemburg, who studied the Belgian strike, was particularly impressed with its success in activating the political consciousness of the backward portions of the population.

The fish has a distinctive habit of catching its prey sideways in the mouth, immobilising it with its sharp backward pointing teeth, and then turning the prey headfirst to swallow it.