(1) I had always figured the reclusive Yeti as being a mysterious, private creature who lurked in some backwoods plot of land slowly being bulldozed and turned into apartment complexes.(2) They were walking down the backwoods path they always used, although ambling was a more appropriate term.(3) You need to cultivate an actual normal relationship with a woman for the first time in your backwoods life.(4) She is hopelessly naive about the vulgarity of American life outside her tiny, backwoods hamlet of Sparta, North Carolina.(5) It is located in the southern part of the city, hence the name u2018Downriveru2019, and is special in the regard that it's actually a wormhole to some backwoods city in the deep south.(6) At a recent London show, armed with no more than a backwoods beard, an acoustic guitar and an amazing voice, he silenced a room full of gabby, gossipy music-biz types, which is no mean feat.(7) The idiosyncrasies of the backwoods people were easily remembered, especially those that could be considered as negative values.(8) People used our address as a backwoods landfill, depositing the unsought and the unclean.(9) In the depth of winter a big group of kulaks with their families were being taken on carts 300 kilometres into the backwoods of the region.(10) Pundits have long pondered the contradictions inherent in a vice-prez whose life contains both an out-and-proud lesbian daughter, and a backwoods redneck doofus boss.(11) Songs sprinkled with references to selling the farm and moving to Baltimore, or seeing out one's days in the Mississippi backwoods , may not seem much closer to home, but they seemed far less exotic and esoteric.(12) It's not the witty, clever-yet-deep film you might expect, coming across instead as a lightly funny, lazy exercise in mining the obvious humor value of thrusting a big city film crew into a Northeastern backwoods hamlet.(13) But few realistically imagine a bunch of backwoods rednecks pulled off something like this.(14) You'll copter in to one of five beautiful backwoods lodges for guided heli-hiking to turquoise lakes ringed by wildflowers.(15) Another point: this has happened exactly where you might have expected it, neither in the big city nor in the dirt-poor backwoods , but in the zone of transition between the two.(16) But the beard did itch and make me look older and also make me look like a backwoods hick.