Sentence examples for backward at the from inspiring English sources

Wim Wenders writes that "Taking pictures is an act in two directions: forwards and backwards....The camera is an eye capable of looking forward and backward at the same time.

It looked forward and backward at the same time.

But there's only one reason to look backward at the record.

Both sexes possess vertical horns that hook sharply backward at the ends.

b Cannons that fire forward and backward at the same time.

There are lots of people walking backward at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford these days.

The winch had started to wind backward: at this point, the winding required a huge effort.

Instead of casting a wistful glance backward at all the species we've left in the dust I.Q.-wise, it implicitly asks what the real costs of our own intelligence might be.

On June 23 , 2005 American medicine managed to take a small step forward and a giant step backward at precisely the same time, with government approval of the first medication to be earmarked for a specific racial group.

The work-in-progress looks forward at how they'll achieve what they desire, while the fixer-upper is busy looking backward at all the reasons their failures mean they can't move on.

But the "Book of Household Management" rolled on, without a backward glance at the lurid denouements of its creators.