backwardness

How To Use backwardness In A Sentence

• The dichotomy between “forwardness” and “backwardness” is a scale constructed and enforced by the civilizer to validate his civilizing/colonial project. Hartzell and Lin lose on appeal
• The filmmaker seems too prone to adapt herself to backwardness.
• China, on the other hand, was just emerging from backwardness.
• Backwardness will leave us vulnerable to bullying.
• This was one of the most depressing moments of my life, not entirely for its present state but its reflexive backwardness. WHITE LIES
• Dr George believes that one of the factors contributing to the high degree of backwardness among the Swazi is the 'autocratic rule of a conservative chief dedicated to traditionalism'. The Rise of the South African Reich - Chapter 15
• This is a city that struggles unsuccessfully to shake the traditions of backwardness, authoritarianism, ignorance, corruption, and social inequality.
• Yet backwardness might not be tantamount to barbarism, or even ‘backward’ in any denigratory way.
• Both citationality and nostalgia repackage the past in present styles and for present uses, and both can contribute to Orientalizing backwardness in obvious and direct ways.
• His fame comes from films that, in general, glorify violence and backwardness.