His journey from monstrosity to enlightenment contains no backward steps and, as dramatized by Mr. St.

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But this is by no means a backward-looking book.

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It's been so many years, in fact, since Allen told us to "go backwards when forward fails" that the notions of forward and backward no longer seem relevant, and neither do any of the standard ways of thinking about art generationally.

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Such problems will become greater in future because the largest concentrations of poverty are no longer in the backward rural areas but in the anarchic megalopolises of developing countries, like Lagos and Mumbai.

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Being categorized "backward" in India is no guarantee of benefits.

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The result of this oversight is a gigantic step backward for women with little or no income of their own.

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In one sequence, Cobb giggles as he watches a Japanese boy, no more than 10 years old, turn backward handsprings in the street.

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It can no longer seem merely a continent which is a bit backward but will soon catch up.

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City defender Stevan Savic first attempted a bizarre backward header that fell harmlessly into the vast no-man's land ahead of goalkeeper Joe Hart.

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They pushed the car backward to free a woman trapped underneath and lifted it off the ground to make sure no one else was trapped.

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