Sentence examples for the backwardness from inspiring English sources
noun
The state of being backward.
Starting from the assumption that blasphemy can exist only in a backward society, critics point to blasphemy as evidence of the backwardness of entire religious cultures.
He says to forget the backwardness.
It reproduces the backwardness of Britain in constitutional terms.
The backwardness of Prussia was revealed by the disaster of 1806.
He insists that he is no racist, but is voicing justifiable concerns about the backwardness of Islamic civilisation and culture.
From this character derives the Russian term oblomovshchina, epitomizing the backwardness, inertia, and futility of 19th-century Russian society.
Writers like Dostoevsky and Turgenev used vodka to highlight the backwardness and moral bankruptcy of the autocratic order.
However, an old Gramscian truth about Italy must be remembered: the "backwardness" of its capitalism is paradigmatic.
But I realise that it is in the backwardness of India that lies the possibilities of development.
It gives you this sense of forward looking, of the forwardness of history as well as the backwardness of history.
His words are unacceptable, but in fact reflect a common feeling in Italy … It highlights the backwardness of our culture".
