Sentence examples for something backward from inspiring English sources

(2) One might wonder whether there is something backward about the view that conceptual role determines meaning.

We know there's something inexcusably wrong with the system -- something backward and inhumane.

Young Muslims, she stressed, must teach the world that Islam is a modern religion and show people that it's not something backward or incompatible with the West.

They used to joke that it sounded like something spelled backward.

The faint voices came from the left-field bleachers, not the right, which could have been the first hint that something was backward at baseball's season opener at the Tokyo Dome on Tuesday.

"Resolving them enables us and the software industry to focus on innovation rather than something that looks backward," she said.

Using tiny wires and fishnet structures, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found new ways to bend light backward, something that never occurs in nature.

In fact, the foliage and swimming pools suggest Southern California, but there is something almost rurally backward and hick-like about the family's shabby household, rusted cars and humdrum lives.

There has recently been something of a backward turn in LGBTQ film-making – a surge of interest in stories about the past, realised through period dramas, documentaries about queer subjects, or on-screen depiction of older LGBTQ people.

For a man that gave us tea that is simultaneously hot and cold, mustard ice cream, and a burger that takes longer to make than a return trip to Australia, your fish pie, shepherd's pie, mac and cheese and lasagne are all something of a backward step.

The South is something you fall back into, like falling backward off a diving board.