Sentence examples for idea backwards from inspiring English sources

Isn't this idea backwards?

The pair buzz ideas backwards and forwards, mostly by fax, until the piece is ready to be taken on tour.

Quite early in the process, after batting ideas backwards and forwards and holding an early workshop, they reached a crunch point where they realised that the story they were planning was too long to fit into a single evening.

Ideas whip backwards and forwards.

He seems to be the most modern of men, and his ideas are backwards.

The idea is that backwards time travel is impossible because if it occurred, time travellers would attempt to do things such as kill their younger selves (or their grandfathers etc).

The Quantified Self is about charting my progress and "interactive personal infographics" – the idea of looking backwards at one's activity and habits as a delightful new kind of science.

For example, the idea of devolution ("backwards" evolution) is a result of erroneously assuming that evolution is directional or has a specific goal in mind (cf. orthogenesis).

If there's any one area in American cultural life where this backwards idea of riffing has seemed to most take hold, it's in the performances of American Idol contestants.

The basic idea of skating backwards is easy – you push the outsides of your skates forward and out, curve them back to the center of your body and repeat.

I was the only black girl at my private high school in Pass Christian, the target of my classmates' backwards ideas about race.