Sentence examples for backwards looking way from inspiring English sources

Washington spends way too much time re-litigating the past — witness how much time has been devoted to debating old trade deals, the 2010 Affordable Care Act or the 1980s Reagan tax cuts — and has increasingly budgeted and legislated in a backwards looking way.

Conversely, according to Parker, reactionary conservatives are backwards looking, generally fearful of losing their way of life in a wave of social change.

Guidelines are backwards looking.

In my view, these are backwards looking risks.

Of course, such analysis is only backwards looking.

(except if you done it off stairs/a ledge, try and get it on way before the landing, otherwise it looks way too bad).. Never lean backwards on your skateboard.

They have, however, recently released an anthology of the last 10 years of their career, which looks backwards whatever way you look at it.

I epitomise the dragged-through-a-hedge-backwards look.

The architectural correspondent of The Times wrote that the architecture of the college was incongruous – it was "remarkable" that a college with connections to modern industry should be looking backwards in this way.

Pop culture at this point was looking backwards and, in a way, Zelda was the definitive example of this.

Vaughn told the site he was "not happily done with the franchise" and felt looking backwards might be the best way to move forwards after 2013's Kick-Ass 2 failed to find traction with critics or audiences.