Sentence examples for radically backward from inspiring English sources

His expedition began as a ploy to reach the Spice Islands — now part of Indonesia's Malaku Islands — via a radically backward route: sailing west, not east.

This is not the same thing as a backward version of a radically progressive artistic style, as in the United Nations Headquarters (another charge of Wallace Harrison's) — the kind of sensibility that feels the pull of the new but can't go far enough.

Brooding on Hood and Harrison's rivalry, you might conclude that inarguable beauty, or at least good building, typically arises from backward style made in, and altered by, a radically progressive climate.

Mr. Brzezinski also accepts the administration's view that the United States faces radically new security problems in which the threats are coming not from established great powers but from illiberal states, backward societies and aggrieved peoples.

Radically less.

Radically safer.

That changed things radically.

Radically ambiguous and radically free.

Backward, march!

Or backward.

Read backward.