Sentence examples for as a backward from inspiring English sources

And then he gets up and walks away, without so much as a backward glance.

She described it as a backward whistle, sort of a sighing intake of the breath.

Perry will be branded as a backward, dimwitted, heartless neo-Confederate.

People all over the world stereotype Indians as a backward people, she said.

All of them look down on Kurds as a backward peasant or servant class.

"We have always been treated as a backward people incapable of managing the refuse of such a large town.

"They're widely viewed as a backward and intolerant cult by their opposition peers in Iran," he said.

"Russian Dolls" is framed as a backward-looking narrative.

Gandhi emerges as a backward-looking egomaniac who had to be dragged into modernity by the more ambitious and radical Ambedkar.

On the face of it "The Rake's Progress" — often regarded as a backward-looking Mozartean pastiche — seems easiest to reconcile with Mr. Harnoncourt's prior interests.

The "cricket and warm beer" speech was mercilessly exploited by his political opponents to portray him as a backward-looking nostalgic.