The monarch takes "a backwards looking, patriarchal, strife-ridden country" and advances it greatly.
Back then, evangelicals were fond of playing the music of rock bands backwards, looking for secret messages from the Prince of Darkness himself, who presumably did this as a hobby of sorts.
Above me, so high I may fall backwards looking at it, the mirror maze touches the sky which is small – a blue handkerchief far away.
"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.
That leaves you bending over backwards looking for the next stop!
First, legislation by its nature is backwards looking and the brains on Wall Street will always find a loophole around it.
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.
"Five Guys, I don't sense an identity; In-N-Out is backwards looking; Shake Shack is down-on-the-farm," he said.
We're crawling on four wheels backwards, looking at its pinched seal face, the shimmering flanks, the dehydrated hands — the short, imperfect loveliness of groundhog.
Soon, she turned around and started to walk backwards, looking for a friend with whom she had started the race.
"Over the years, we've gained more tools for treating cancer, but the old ability to be flexible and adapt has disappeared," DeVita writes: Guidelines are backwards looking.
