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glance back

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glance back (at someone)
1. to look quickly at someone who is looking at you. He glanced back at Mary, so he could remember her smile. She hoped he would notice her but he never even glanced back.
2. to look quickly at someone who is behind you. Dan glanced back at the man chasing him and ran on even faster. He glanced back and ran faster.
See also: back, glance


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Ignoring the dubious idea that leggings are "futureproof" - glance back at the early 90s - this is less the sort of spending plan you would take to your bank manager, more the teenage logic behind pleading for extra pocket money.
How much easier it is then to create a myth of repression just prior to late capitalism, so we are all able to nostalgically glance back at the pathos of failed encounters and uncritically celebrate our own progress under the glare of the ideological streetlight.
You glance back at the little old lady as she vanishes around the corner, you remember you old scooter and how all you had to do is plug it into a wall for a few hours and it was recharged and ready to go.
 
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