Sentence examples for backwards about from inspiring English sources

When it comes to health, men are notoriously backwards about coming forward.

The band had country moments like the witty "Backwards," about hearing a country song in reverse: "You get your truck back, you get your hair back, you get your first and second wife back".

"The fact that I was arrested for this at all shows that Japan is still very backwards about women's sexual expression, that it is not acknowledged at all except as something for men's pleasure," Igarashi told Reuters after her first trial hearing.

The secret deal between Khrushchev and Kennedy that ended the crisis saw the removal of the American first-strike capability from Turkey, together with the Soviet withdrawal from Cuba.Alex KlimburgShanghaiUser-friendlySIR – You have it backwards about new software (Technology Quarterly, "Buggy whipped", June 22nd).

I half expected him to stop, too, I was sure he'd seen something in my face that had given him a momentary glimpse backwards, about 50 years backwards, actually, to Cambridge, to a large redbrick house on Station Road where he - or the man I took him to be - and I had taught English to foreigners.

Flash backwards about a month.

Tradition at its best is therefore not about looking backwards, but about looking both ways, taking the good that has come from the past into the future, while not being afraid to see it continue to change and grow.

begin your swing by lifting your stick backwards to about a point where the tip of your stick is about the same height of your shoulder (Don't raise your stick too high or all your strength will be invested in the lifting instead of the shot).

"I entered the corner and exited backwards at about 130," he added.

"I just had them slack me out, slack me out, slack me out on the safety ropes so the only thing touching the building at that point was my feet, and then I was backwards at about 45 degrees, and then I pushed off," he said.

I'm doing this kind of backwards, writing about the politics first.