The phrase "backwards glance" is correct and usable in written English.
It means to look or glance back in time or at something that has already happened. Example: As she walked away, she couldn't help but steal a backwards glance at the person she had just met, wondering if she would ever see them again.
But, idiomatically, you can only 'bend over backward.' And you must never 'sneak a backwards glance,' because only backward is acceptable as an adjective".
This backwards glance over the Secret Teachers of 2014 reminds us of the highs and lows we've shared with you.
As the Silver Seas run through a brisk seven-song set, collecting £5 for their troubles, the couple sit in silence, and when they finish their lunch they stand up and walk off without a backwards glance.
For Amy, his quotation of Bach in the opening was apparently significant; his use of dotted rhythms, like the so-called French Overture of Baroque times, was another backwards glance in an otherwise defiantly modern soundscape.
The little pooch would stand in front of the dancers and milk the applause, and would exit slowly with a mock-modest backwards glance, as if reluctant to abandon his adoring public.
The difference between me and Paris Brown is that I did my growing up pre-internet, so when the time came to blossom into a young woman ready for responsibility, one could neatly segue into adult life with nary a backwards glance.
No more backwards glances to Moscow; eyes only for Brussels.
While we may fume as we read about this, he remains uncomplaining, and deflects anger into backwards glancing.
If there were one final single – Where Are We Now, say – its quavering tone and rheumy backwards glances at Bowie's Berlin period would have made for a tidy coda.
In an especially shrewd move, this lineup put on a series of backwards-glancing Big Four concerts with their thrash contemporaries Anthrax, Megadeth, and Slayer.
They are always inspiring as you need to glance backwards in order to look forwards.
