backward

His speeches, which he wrote himself, were frequently brilliant, even if they too often pointed backward instead of forward.

The camera dollied backward along the length of the tower's staircase while simultaneously its lens zoomed forward.

Now Benny lifted his head up, slapped his knee, and laughed so hard that he almost tumbled over backward.

Reputation, or how we seem, seems to be much more important these days than who we are—which is obviously backward.

Your fiction is preoccupied with the past—even the contemporary stories have an aura of looking backward.

Sol got up, slowly; took a backward step into the yard; filled his lungs, opened his mouth, made his eyes round.

Then a shower of dirt flew into their faces and both Jolly Robin and his wife tumbled over backward.

A like indifference to the position of a picture, and of a letter, has been observed among backward races.

But they went slowly, with much half-whispered, sullen conferring and many a backward glance at Marius and those with him.

More than nine-tenths of these were made in Birmingham, and, of course, our tradesmen were not backward with their own specimens.