But Sam, for one, would sneer at such backwardness, and "Birdman," right now, is on the money.
Much of the southern literary canon sprang from native writers' fury at the backwardness and injustice they saw all around.The South's artistic output has not necessarily improved in recent decades, but the life it depicts certainly has.
Mr. Warren has not agitated for online debates in this election year, and he has not unleashed his usual torrent of e-mail messages railing at the backwardness of those in power.
In a country that was seething with national resentment against foreign aggression, chafing at its own backwardness, and composed chiefly of peasants, Li's ideas had decisive relevance and formed the core of the thinking of Mao Zedong, who later formulated the military strategy by which the peasantry could carry out its revolution.
For their part, the French marveled at the indolence and backwardness of the Egyptians.
Brena's music painted a chilling portrait of rural backwardness in the SFRY, one drastically at odds with the party line.
After more than a century of economic stagnation in the Ribeira Valley, exploration of mineral deposits was presented as a remedy to the region's "backwardness," and governmental investment was initiated at the end of the 1930s.
Everyone is aware of the responsibility of the US in creating the circumstances for the appearance of the Taliban, who are then pointed at as proof of the backwardness of Islam in general.
That sort of backwardness seemed to defined Alabama law enforcement at the time, and King decided that that made Selma the right place for the Selma marches.
At least some of golf's backwardness can be explained (if not justified) on historical grounds.
