The phrase "backward idea" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe an idea or concept that is outdated or regressive. For example: "The notion that women do not belong in the workforce is a backward idea."
That's why Indian giant Adani's proposed Carmichael mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin, one of the world's largest, is such a backward idea – and why I have joined the fight to stop it.
While the Internet has changed the way we share ideas, it has clearly not changed the backward idea that a teacher should labor selflessly without the dignity of claiming authorship of her own work.
Moreover, the notion of codependence also contains another backward idea about human nature: the belief popularized by many therapists and self-help groups in the 1970s that people are naturally independent and shouldn't need connection to others to be happy.
Sport morphs into something well beyond escape or a vessel for backward ideas and becomes a meaningful part in the fabric of our lives.
Huang Shaoming, chief of Bobai County, the area where most of the violence occurred, attributed the outbreak to "backward ideas about birth control and the rule of law" among the people he governs, according to comments carried by Xinhua.
The bigger bummer, though, is that the studio that has enchanted generations with Tinker Bell and at least a few plucky princesses has backed a movie that has such backward ideas about female characters that it makes the 1939 "Wizard of Oz" look like a suffragist classic.
The Coen brothers are into belief systems — big and seemingly backward ideas that overcome contradictions with a leap of faith — and "Hail, Caesar!" is full of them, from the very first shot, an image of a sculpted Christ on the crucifix.
The bigger bummer, though, is that "the studio that has enchanted generations with Tinker Bell and at least a few plucky princesses" — the Walt Disney Company — "has backed a movie that has such backward ideas about female characters that it makes the 1939 'Wizard of Oz' look like a suffragist classic," she added.
The Coen brothers are into belief systems big and seemingly backward ideas that overcome contradictions with a leap of faith and "Hail, Caesar!" is full of them, from the very first shot, an image of a sculpted Christ on the crucifix.
Reject the politicians whose backward ideas will keep you only dreaming of success.
But I am not a dogmatic liberal, because liberalism to me is about freedom and equality -- especially freedom of inquiry and liberation of the mind from backward ideas and thoughts.
