Sentence examples for backward focus from inspiring English sources

The backward focus condition was expected to decrease nasalance scores and the forward focus condition was expected to increase nasalance scores.

The vocal tract settings in question were backward focus (retracted tongue, wide pharynx, and lowered larynx) and forward focus (fronted tongue, constricted pharynx, and raised larynx).

Occasionally this backward focus works to Jackson's advantage: On 'Stranger in Moscow' he remembers the synth-pop '80s while constructing wracked claims of danger and loneliness that rival any Seattle rocker's pain".

The rear camera is constantly looking backward, focusing anxiously on the lander from which it roved.

She kicked off the class backward, focusing first on dessert -- a Meyer lemon tart with a layer of chocolate -- so it would have enough time to cool down.

After generations of being an adventurous, exploratory music always probing forward -- an avant-garde art of the American street -- jazz flipped backward, focusing on its past.

We cannot just look backward, focusing our attention on our own past alone.

That's why the data science process for this initiative resembles a "pendulum," where the forward swing focuses on rapidly driving insights out to researchers and the backward swing focuses on measuring, evaluating results, refining the model and then swinging again.

"Recession is over, economy is recovering — let's look forward and stop the backward-looking focus," John E. Silvia, the Wells Fargo chief economist, wrote Tuesday in a research note.

Many have criticized financial measures because of their well-documented inadequacies, their backward-looking focus, and their inability to reflect contemporary value-creating actions.

Heavy foreign investment and booming export industries have left China flush with foreign currency, but its financial system remains relatively backward and focused inward, analysts say.