Sentence examples for forward and backward looking from inspiring English sources

This was conceived as the ultimate museum, at once forward and backward looking – a laboratory of new culture and a dreamy cabinet of curiosities at one and the same time.

I like the word 21st Century next to a phrase like Plowshare, it feels forward and backward looking at the same time.

It is a sharp contrast to Secretary Clinton, whose steady leadership shows a forward, not backward, looking vision for America.

The forward and backward-looking aims of punishment apply not only to the particular offence in question, but also to the kind of conduct of which this offence is an example.

But with all the looking forward and looking backward it's amazing there isn't a whiplash epidemic among thirtysomethings, although it does explain the dizzy stupidity of some of the sentiment.

"Medúlla," the new album, performs a typical Björkian maneuver, moving forward and looking backward at once.

He doesn't want the party to continue trying to rely on how unpopular Trump is moving forward, and looking backward makes it more difficult to do that.

Caitlin Scranton exuded eerie calm in the "Diagonal Dance," in which she moved forward and backward over and over, looking statuesque and wonderfully strange.

As we read, we are frustrated looking forward and forgetful looking backward — episodes open and fail satisfactorily to close, or, when they come back on line, we can no longer remember how they started.

Wim Wenders writes that "Taking pictures is an act in two directions: forwards and backwards....The camera is an eye capable of looking forward and backward at the same time.

Like the dual-faced Roman god of Janus looking forward and backward, the two leaders have seemingly perused history to see the future.