Sentence examples for backwards looking to from inspiring English sources

"I am not sure that this in itself is going to make us move forward, because so far we have not moved forward, we have been walking with our heads backwards, looking to the past, talking about what happened, putting people on trial," said Mohamed Salmawy, a novelist and head of the writers union.

The EU regularly carries out assessments of existing regulatory frameworks to make sure they are fit for purpose.4 This is in essence a backwards looking assessment to answer the question if the regulatory framework worked in the recent past.

You may take 3 long steps backwards, look at the goal to make sure you are lined up correctly, and then take 2 long steps to the right, if you are a left footer.

Where the big hole is in the wall that ends the mission, stand directly in front of it and walk backwards and look to your left side.

Soon, she turned around and started to walk backwards, looking for a friend with whom she had started the race.

Of course, such analysis is only backwards looking.

While it might appear that Wys' work looks backwards, it also looks to the future, exploring how the communication between technology and humankind ultimately affects our awareness of our own aesthetics.

"We can either go backwards, or we can look to the future," Mr. Terzopoulos said.

The spindle will move clockwise, which will appear to be wrong because it takes the film and bends it around the spindle in what looks to be backwards.

Just as technologists used to bend over backwards to look dumb so as to make artificially intelligent computers look smart, Lanier argues that we now fawn over and patronise the new internet collectivism to make it look smarter than it really is.

It continues to look backwards to BlackBerry's legacy keyboard-chained past — a compromise between old technology and new software.