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ˈback·ward-look·ing ADJ

backward-looking
backward-looking ideas

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backward-looking ideas

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Remarkably, his backward-looking tribute to the golden age of musicals and noirish romantic melodramas turned out to be one of his most freewheeling and personal films.
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For retributionists, punishment is backward-looking, justified by the crime that has been committed and carried out to atone for the damage already done.
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In one sense, these are backward-looking measures, since they depend on historically observed data.
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Not backward-looking, though: young people make their own culture.
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Entitled to their opinion, entitled to respect, but we don't have to be guided by backward-looking thinking.
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Warren never saw the courts as a backward-looking branch of government.
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Being rather backward-looking by nature (except for science), the feminists have always enraged me.
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It was unfortunate that certain of the officers who rose to high rank and positions of influence within the army during the 1930s were comparatively backward-looking.
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The brotherhood's medievalism was attacked as backward-looking and its extreme devotion to detail was condemned as ugly and jarring to the eye.
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Lyrically, however, the album is the sort of introspective, fatalistic, backward-looking confessional that's become common for aging musicians.
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