Sentence examples for quite backward from inspiring English sources

I was quite backward in lots of ways.

Of course, he understands that, in terms of technology, the United States is often quite backward.

"Conditions for large numbers of Tibetans are still quite backward," the official, Guo Jinlong, said in a rare interview inside the sprawling government compound here.

Much of the time we seem to give attention to small scale stuff that is actually quite backward looking: local money, barter, living without money, community groups hanging on to a slightly unthinking localism.

It's not quite backward induction because we had to add in this little piece about 2 not knowing where she was, but it turned out, no matter where she was, she had a dominant strategy, she had a better strategy once she figures out that Player 1 is going to choose down.

Generally speaking, China is still quite backward in science, but the speed of development in science as well as in other areas is very fast.

Sputnik brought home that the Russians weren't quite the backward oafs Americans had thought.

But there are also some western feminist discourses that seek to define our identities in ways that are quite neocolonial: backward, oppressed, with no hope of liberation other than to emulate whatever western notions of womanhood are on offer.

He was quite big and backward and we minded him after that to save his novice status for this season.

There is nothing quite like feeling yourself sliding backward on rock after being defeated by gravity on a steep uphill.

In a place where every molecule is stretched toward the future, nothing feels quite so freakish as looking backward.