#reversed

Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#around #been #done #ever #familiar

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#democracy #disastrous #foolish #gloom #good

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. ↗

— Jules Verne

#base #called #eighty #embraces #everybody

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us. ↗

— Richard Whately

#close #human #judgment #law #most

Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone. ↗

— Edward Hall

#actress #bring #case #dynamic #her

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#city #community #crime #established #fighting

I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#because #been #did #done #education

Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean. ↗

— Richard Morris

#importantly #like #mean #more #music

The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council. ↗

— David Petraeus

#could #council #difficult #during #elected

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#first #good #happen #help #him