Change in direction

Usage examples of reversal.

A wealthy criminal might obtain, not only the reversal of the sentence by which he was justly condemned, but might likewise inflict whatever punishment he pleased on the accuser, the witnesses, and the judge.

It felt odd for him to be taking orders from Breck, but the reversal of roles was necessary.

Sir John Sharington, whose crimes and malversations had appeared so egregious at the condemnation of Lord Seymour, obtained from parliament a reversal of his attainder.

The impersonal, reportorial quality of the third-person objective point of view works well to suggest ironies of situations and speech, those understated subtleties of discovery and reversal that make for psychological suspense.

Hobgood, Sheff had, and this reversal of the process, by a ghost, was something that really scared him.

And then, for a brief period of thirty or forty thousand years, a reversal of the mass exchange as the companion star in turn burned up its hydrogen and bloated to a blue supergiant, while the relentless hole devoured its substance.

In an execrable left-slanting hand, he announced, employing a sardonic tone that had not been present in his first letters from Lisbon, that the old tubafter a series of delays, reversals, mechanical failures, and governmental tergiversations, had finally been cleared yet againfor departure, on the second of December.

At another level, the irony is embodied in the dramatic reversal of fortunes undergone by Mathieu and Brunet by the time the tetralogy breaks off.

Edwina had had no effect whatsoever, Emma was a bit taken aback by this unanticipated reversal.

Again, we have the response undergoing an actual reversal when the tissue is stale.

Throughout the Middle Ages the inhabitants of Khurasan were taught painful lessons in sudden reversals of fortune.

Therefore, the Longline continued to emit its own neutrino bursts as it left the neutron star and when it made its reversal some three hundred thousand kilometers away.

This is of all courts the safest and rightest to abide by, but it must not be forgotten that the common sense of one generation is not that of the next, and that the modification with which common sense descends cannot be effected, however gently we may try to do so, without some disturbance of the pre-existing common sense, and some reversal of its decrees.

Based on the seroepidemiology we found just that, but noticed a paradoxical reversal in the wealthier classes until we reached a glaring absence in businessmen above a certain socio-economic level.

He would come presently to the greatest-to the reversal of the final Jewish word of power, to the reversed Tetragrammaton itself.