look back **
look backward

He has been living his life looking backward rather than forward, trying not to stand out.

Too much of life, he says, is spent looking forward or backward.

I was trying to look backward, to watch him to the last moment.

There is, of course, more to see looking backward than forward.

"We the people cannot move forward by looking backward," he said.

The music industry seems determined to keep looking backward instead of forward and wants to hold everyone else back as well.

They created a role for themselves and never looked backward.

Some like to celebrate the new year by looking backward.

One eye can look forward while the other looks backward at the same time.

You're watching all of the action on a monitor so everything actually looks backward.