Stacy Schiff

Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.

American Author

Adrienne Mayor

In April 2001, I visited Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky. The heaps of mastodon and other large skeletons that used to loom out of the brackish backwaters along the Ohio River here are long gone, though the occasional big bone sometimes comes to light.

American Historian

Ryan Bethencourt

In the past, biology has been a backwater type of activity - a bunch of nerds in a lab. Now the sheer potential of biology to re-program our physical world is a new reality for everyone.

American Scientist

David Andrew Sinclair

When I started in the field, aging research was the backwater of biology. The idea that you could find a molecule that would prevent many diseases at once was considered impossible.

Australian Scientist

Sabine Baring-Gould

The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals.

English Clergyman

Pinarayi Vijayan

Kerala is called 'God's own country.' We need to make sure it is really so, for which we should ensure the entire state, including rivers and backwaters, are clean.

Indian Politician

Christopher Fowler

As a child marooned in a post-war South London backwater with no ready cash and a bafflingly dysfunctional family, I had to glean my amusement wherever I could.

English Writer

Kalki Koechlin

I like Kerala a lot. The beautiful beaches there, the backwaters - I have good memories of the place.

French Actress

Daniel Lyons

Even in the business department of a magazine, tech was a backwater.

American Writer

Richard Engel

Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world.

American Journalist

Backwater often invokes images of a simpler, quieter lifestyle, contrasting with the hustle of urban areas.

Cultural Imagery

Sometimes implies a place is backward or out of step with progress.

Negative Connotation

Backwater can be synonymous with 'sleepy town' but carries a sense of isolation too.

Synonym Awareness

Refers to a part of a water body with little to no movement; understand it as a kind of natural water pocket.

Physical Geography

Do not confuse the geographical feature with the metaphorical sense of cultural isolation.

Literal vs Metaphorical

Backwaters are ecologically important habitats, often rich in biodiversity.

Ecological Importance

 goes the shame we can't see him drinking is being just bad that little round of mud what are we getting nasty protected there from the wind a little bit of a backwater or Eddy and

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 The idea of finding a different technology had absolutely taken over, and there were tiny, tiny little factories in backwaters. Dearborn, Michigan. Henry Ford.