Red indicates upward pull, blue downward. Moreover, there can be downward or upward mobility. There are two types of counterfactual thoughts, downward and upward. In simple terms it can be expressed as being "upward" or "downward". A vicious cycle developed and the downward spiral accelerated. The pylons can be tilted up to 10-degree downward. These have fibres that are angled obliquely downward and forward from rib to rib. She is on such a downward spiral. Morale at the factory went into a downward spiral. He punished them by tying them to a stick with their faces pointing downward. What looks like one stroke was actually a wedge pointing downward. It has a sigmoid form and runs from behind and above downward and forward. They are usually installed untensioned at a slight downward inclination. Credits adapted from the liner notes of "The Downward Spiral". Uplift rejuvenated the streams, which rapidly responded by cutting downward into the ancient bedrock.