Sentence examples for and backward looking from inspiring English sources

It's earnest and backward looking, this music, but vigorous; there is something special going on here.

Milne declares the Abbott government's first budget is divisive, brutal and backward looking.

Gringos's client was John Vincent Lawless Hogan, a man who was both forward thinking (he invented the facsimile machine) and backward looking (he was a founder of the classical music radio station WQXR).

This was conceived as the ultimate museum, at once forward and backward looking – a laboratory of new culture and a dreamy cabinet of curiosities at one and the same time.

I like the word 21st Century next to a phrase like Plowshare, it feels forward and backward looking at the same time.

The trick will be to pull this off without seeming insular, protectionist and backward-looking.

Like some other people, Mr. Bresnahan criticized the settlement as very limited in its ambitions and backward-looking.

The rules will also need to ensure measures of bank lending do not rely too heavily on crude and backward-looking statistics.

But even if That Music Show – the better of the two pilots – does make it to a full series, its late-night timeslot and backward-looking bookings mean it is not as inclusive or useful as a full music show could and should be.

As Margaret Morrison (2009) and Wendy Parker (forthcoming) argue, there are cases where reliable quantitative information is gathered about a target system with the aid of a computer simulation, but in a manner that satisfies some of the central desiderata for measurement such as being empirically grounded and backward-looking.

This results in celebrating the art and intellectual forms that are more simplistic (i.e. a nation's box office blockbusters at the expense of a film that is more artistically done), causing the French to be thought of as elitist and backward-looking (in the sense that their elitism is celebrating a time of greater social division and perhaps even aristocracy itself).