It just makes us look like a cultural backwater, I think.

If Woking was once considered a cultural backwater, it isn’t any more.

Columbus, after all, is not exactly a cultural backwater.

Many, as a result, became more impatient with the social and cultural backwater which, they now realized, their village constituted.

What on earth induced you to go to that cultural backwater?' '

It may apply to places that have been neglected in economic development or in the expression a "cultural backwater".

Such disdain for lesser urban centers as cultural backwaters is receding these days, and not just in Orlando.

Thessaly at that time was a cultural backwater, remaining in the 'Dark Ages' until the close of the 5th century.

During one year in the early 1960's, "only five Canadian novels were published," she said, and the country was considered "a kind of hopeless cultural backwater."

In fact, until the 1960s Washington, DC was considered by many to be an unsophisticated cultural backwater.

The story starts in 1955, when Los Angeles was a boomtown thanks to movies and the aerospace industry, but a cultural backwater.

But Los Angeles - whose art, architecture and theater have blossomed in the last decade - is hardly a cultural backwater now.

They also enjoy dispelling the notion, whether held by prospects or old friends in Rochester, that they have moved to a cultural backwater.

Their clubs are social and cultural backwaters, places where they pay their money but do not receive full membership and privileges.

Brisbane in the 1970s and 1980s was often viewed as a cultural backwater, referred to by many journalists as the Deep North.

Once described as the UK on Prozac, Australia has always been considered a cultural backwater.

Nevertheless, the United States was still a cultural backwater, and black artists still had an unspoken consensus to reckon with.

"Until then, Britain was a cultural backwater," Mr. Wilk said.

Virtually immediately, the cultural backwater that was Norway brought forth a series of strong authors recognized first in Scandinavia, and then worldwide.

Editor Jann Wenner said San Francisco had become "a cultural backwater".

Prominent residents hoped the reopening would lay to rest the coastal characterizations of St. Louis as a cultural backwater.

They instantaneously and forever altered the conception of Sichuan as a cultural backwater during the Shang period.

The city loathes its reputation as a cultural backwater and is keen to challenge New York and London in the world of art.

Psychiatric diagnosis was a professional embarrassment and cultural backwater until D.S.M.-3 was published in 1980.

Xenophobia being what it is, particularly in our cultural backwaters. . . no, I wasn't referring to Westville!

So how about a review for those of us living in a cultural wasteland.

Worst decision I ever made in my entire life was moving into this area of cultural wasteland.

In 20 years we've gone from a cultural wasteland to an interesting, stimulating, great place to live.

I have been for years on a planet that must be the cultural wasteland of the universe.

New York City, he said, is for him a bit of a cultural wasteland.

At last, hope for an oasis in the 500-channel cultural wasteland of the airways.

He often compared his early life there to a cultural wasteland in which he did not fit well.

Then I moved back to that true cultural wasteland called North Jersey.

"It's a cultural wasteland, a six-hour drive to a museum," she said.

We aren't really a cultural wasteland; it just appears that way when you look at our movie marquees.

With its relatively short history and concrete skyline, you might expect the Iranian capital to be something of a cultural wasteland.

"If we want economic growth here, we have to fight the perception that this is a cultural wasteland.

This has led a lot of people to look at this region as a barren cultural wasteland."

For some unknown reason, those who don't live on Long Island believe it's a vast cultural wasteland.

Advertising itself, he said, "is a cultural wasteland."

To the urban avant-garde, the fledgling suburbs seemed to be a political backwater and cultural wasteland.

I spent last weekend in the vast cultural wasteland that is known as Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Many of the wives of officers considered California to be a cultural wasteland and a hardship assignment.

I'm afraid that tinkering with great plays in the public domain is yet one more example of the cultural wasteland in which we live.

Nottingham always has amazing things like this going on within the city, but it never stops feeling like a complete cultural wasteland.

"Studio 60" is a polemic about television as a cultural wasteland at the very moment the industry is entering a new golden age.

Nor is Las Vegas the cultural wasteland outsiders imagine it to be.

I'm not very intellectual and I don't actually mind the idea of Australia as a 'cultural wasteland'.

Is this Long Island, the place so often vilified as a pop cultural wasteland of big hair and exaggerated accents?

"We are not a cultural wasteland, but people don't think of us, because we are so close to New York."