The phrase "a backwards glance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to looking back at past events, experiences, or memories.
Example: "As she moved forward in her career, she took a backwards glance at the challenges she had overcome."
Alternatives: "a retrospective look" or "a look back".
But, idiomatically, you can only 'bend over backward.' And you must never 'sneak a backwards glance,' because only backward is acceptable as an adjective".
Before commenting on where tax policy seems to be heading, I shall try briefly to describe where we are-with a backwards glance at how we got here.
He says they celebrate that quirkiness with a healthy dose of elitism as a defining characteristic that elevates them above the masses who have already moved onto the next medium without so much as a backwards glance.
As the Silver Seas run through a brisk seven-song set, collecting £5 for their troubles, the couple sit in silence, and when they finish their lunch they stand up and walk off without a backwards glance.
The difference between me and Paris Brown is that I did my growing up pre-internet, so when the time came to blossom into a young woman ready for responsibility, one could neatly segue into adult life with nary a backwards glance.
He trotted towards the school without a backwards glance.
The little pooch would stand in front of the dancers and milk the applause, and would exit slowly with a mock-modest backwards glance, as if reluctant to abandon his adoring public.
For Amy, his quotation of Bach in the opening was apparently significant; his use of dotted rhythms, like the so-called French Overture of Baroque times, was another backwards glance in an otherwise defiantly modern soundscape.
This backwards glance over the Secret Teachers of 2014 reminds us of the highs and lows we've shared with you.
The images these missions have given us, from the swirling storms of Jupiter to the rubble-strewn slopes of Mars and the "pale blue dot" of our home in Voyager 1's backwards glance in 1990, have been eye-wateringly beautiful.
If there were one final single – Where Are We Now, say – its quavering tone and rheumy backwards glances at Bowie's Berlin period would have made for a tidy coda.
