There's an old notion, often proved, that nothing happens in some remote backwater until an astute writer arrives and discovers things there that others have failed to see before.

It presents a scene of rural contentment, a delectable backwater remote and undisturbed by pressures of the world outside.

News reports always seemed to imply that the Wappinger area, already becoming a bedroom community for New York commuters, was a remote backwater where residents married their cousins.

That your employers were too little interested in an obscure story in a remote backwater until now is no one's fault but their own.

The possibility that this remote backwater might have any strategic value to the Allies was obviously discounted.

In Conrad's novel, the country is a remote backwater in the South Seas, forgotten by the rest of the world and essentially without contact with outside civilization.

Most tournaments, most litigation, most festivals, most archidiaconal synods, were held not in remote provincial backwaters but in or near the larger centres of population.

It is not that the area is a remote backwater.

Sandaled and bewigged, these enchanting little figures were boxed and shipped abroad, so that women in the remotest backwaters could know the proper length of hem.

Much of the story is an entertaining account of the bureaucratic politics of working in a remote backwater far from support and assistance.