Sentence examples for his backwardness from inspiring English sources

He was too ashamed of his backwardness to ask any questions.

Tyminski's major error: his political backwardness was a little ahead of its time.

The narrative's subtext emerges as a sophisticated and esteemed writer's aporia — his bafflement — in the face of his nation's backwardness, superstition, and misery.

Mr. Thein Sein's visits to places like Singapore, where he received treatment for a heart condition, and New York, where he attended sessions at the United Nations, may have opened his eyes to the economic backwardness of his country, one of the poorest in Asia.

But the weeks of fuss, in one of the few Arab countries with a vigorous legislature, underscore the enduring sensitivity of women's issues in Arab societies.Since 1899, when Qasim Amin, an Egyptian writer, published a seminal treatise blaming his society's backwardness on its oppression of women, Arab women have advanced, a little.

The Doll depicts the romantic infatuation of a man of action who is frustrated by his country's backwardness.

I kept waiting for him to catch my eye in the middle of one of his clinical descriptions and shake his head over the backwardness of a society obsessed with virginity and prostitution.

Mr. Obama, in his book, describes his first encounter with Mr. Ndesandjo, in which he heaped scorn on his father and the backwardness of Kenya.

In The Price of Coal he revealed not only his angry compassion for the daily dangers of mining, but an acknowledgment of the feudal backwardness in his community.

More conservative clerics resisted, and in 1992 Mr. Khatami resigned, writing that he would rather "fight ignorance and backwardness" on his own.

Back in his home village, Lin Kong has a wife whose bound feet are the sign of her backwardness, but whose devotion is unflagging, while in Muji he keeps company with an educated nurse named Manna Wu.