Sentence examples for backward ideas from inspiring English sources

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In places like Oklahoma, where it's still super illegal, draconian enforcement of marijuana prohibition is regarded by most of America as an ass-backward idea.

It is that Europe is unable to deliver because it is wedded to backward-looking ideas.