What's the difference between flashback and flashforward?

Flashback


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For example, the Basics Card is touted as an innovative policy when in fact it offers repugnant flashbacks to last century’s mission days when Aboriginal people had their bank accounts controlled by the state.
  • (2) The flashbacks also screened childhood and adolescent conflicts activated by the job loss.
  • (3) Flashback patients reported more frequent intrusive items on average and, specifically, more frequent daytime mental imagery.
  • (4) The film's most chilling image, revealed later on in flashback, is of the tiny Li'l Dice returning to the motel alone and gleefully slaying everyone inside.
  • (5) The hypothesis that flashbacks can be psychologically determined symptoms is supported by the dynamics of the case and the course of treatment.
  • (6) It exists only as carefully structured piece of literature, told in flashback and conversation.
  • (7) The trailer comprises a harrowing clip from the film in which the sniper must choose whether to gun down an Iraqi woman and child who appear to be mounting a suicide attack, interspersed with flashbacks to the soldier’s life in America with his own wife and children.
  • (8) The similarity of flashbacks to panic attacks suggests treatment trials with monoamine oxidase inhibitors or imipramine for these selected symptoms.
  • (9) No relation between the flashbacks and protracted psychotic development could be established.
  • (10) Subjects with and without previous flashbacks participated.
  • (11) Although many sensory and cognitive cues can elicit flashback phenomena, smell has distinctive characteristics that make evocation of vivid olfactory memories particularly likely.
  • (12) We have postulated that indeed the flashbacks might represent an amalgam of abnormal neuronal firing along with the expression of a dynamically charged event.
  • (13) By and large, however, this was a prolonged flashback to Madrid in November 2004 when the comprehensive superiority of Aragonés's team in a 1-0 win was nullified purely because the racist abuse by the Bernabéu crowd was so much more significant a matter.
  • (14) The phenomenon of delayed recurring hallucinations is a rare but dangerous side-effect of ketamine, not unlike LSD flashbacks.
  • (15) Everything else is flashback, rewinding to show the drip-drip of humiliations that turn a listless pizza delivery man into a killer with nothing to lose.
  • (16) Simple correlations and multiple regression analyses both showed extent of marijuana use to be the only drug variable significantly related to acid flashbacks.
  • (17) The lactate infusions resulted in flashbacks in all seven patients and panic attacks in six patients.
  • (18) In my ongoing campaign against the past, I’ve weighed up the evidence – extracted largely from those who still suffer chocolate and sunrise orange swirly carpet-related flashbacks – and concluded that it was shit.
  • (19) Each has had his memory completely wiped, including our hero Thomas, who has terrifying flashbacks he can’t figure out.
  • (20) This study examined the nature and significance of these flashbacks in a work-injured population.

Flashforward


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Channel Five's US drama FlashForward had 2.3 million viewers, 9% of the audience, between 9pm and 10pm.
  • (2) So, forget about taking a chance on convoluted "New Lost" fare such as last year's FlashForward; 2010's new dramas are all about playing it safe.
  • (3) Channel Five's US drama import FlashForward continued to perform strongly, attracting 2.7 million viewers and an 11% share in the hour from 9pm.
  • (4) Channel Five's US import FlashForward drew 1.409 million viewers (5.2%) between 9pm and 10pm.
  • (5) Under The Dome (Monday, 10pm, Channel 5) is an Event, a TV Happening in the same big-budget vein as Lost, Terra Nova and FlashForward, in which the inhabitants of Earth were haunted by visions of Joseph Fiennes's chinos.
  • (6) At the same time on Channel Five, its new US import FlashForward starring Joseph Fiennes had 3.3 million viewers, a 14% share, narrowly up on the 3.2 million who watched last week's season opener.
  • (7) Of its 20 most watched programmes to date, four are sport-related, 10 are films, and five US TV shows (in order of popularity: CSI, Joey, Flashforward, CSI: Miami and The Mentalist).
  • (8) Flashforward to 2014 and Carrie (now played by Andrea Estella) is a Lady Gaga-esque pop star who has been found dead in her bathtub.

Words possibly related to "flashforward"