Sentence examples for so backward looking from inspiring English sources

"The debate among these guys has been so unedifying and so backward looking," he said.

It has produced a decision so backward looking that it puts at risk the charitable status of any organisation concerned to use the law to assist progressive social programmes – for example, to protect victims of slavery or child abuse or sex-trafficking – by making legal challenges in foreign courts.

Though backward looking, these so-called 13F statements can cause market movements when closely watched investors like Mr. Buffett disclose their positions.

You won't find so much psychoanalysis, but he's not that kind of guy -- Schwarzenegger is more of a forward lean type than a backward looking type -- so it's not that kind of book.

Usually the picture is hung high on the wall so you have to crane your neck backward, looking up toward her feet.

But business people, investors and an unusually large number of economists, are convinced that India is undergoing a "paradigm shift" and so backward-looking historical data are now irrelevant for assessing future growth.India's capacity for growth has certainly increased over the past decade, thanks to earlier reforms.

How can the EU claim to be a political model for the 21st-century superstate when it remains so backward-looking on this key point?

"Rankings are all backward looking.

A greedy algorithm is backward looking.

"It's a backward looking report".

They feel contemporary, not backward looking.