It does not discard his old dramatic methods, but in a manner it inverts them; Mr. Browning has summoned his group of men not for the sake of drawing their portraits, but that they might help him to draw his own.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Now if we put "money" instead of "life," and begin to classify men by this standard, we see how it inverts the old-world ideas of social hierarchy.
"The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)"
George Tyrrell
The Creator intended us to gaze on worldly possessions and selfish ambitions through the small end of the lorgnette, but youth invariably inverts the glass.
"An Ambitious Man"
Ella Wheeler Wilcox