Sentence examples for a kind of throwback from inspiring English sources

The rumbles of discontent, when they first became manifest, were also a kind of throwback – to the 1970s.

You should think of those promises, instead, as a kind of throwback to the 19th century, when unregulated corporations bulked out their bread with plaster of paris and flavored their beer with sulfuric acid.

The unpredictable process was a kind of throwback to Surrealist automatism, which Hantaï had practiced alongside André Breton in postwar Paris, but the results looked more of their time, like Abstract Expressionism or even hippie tie-dye.

Like Williams, who coined the phrase "the catastrophe of success," the impact of his fame — not so much because of "Glass Menagerie," which was a kind of throwback, but certainly because of "A Streetcar Named Desire," in 1947 — was so all-encompassing that it rocked him and changed him in a way that no writer can predict.

But this was a kind of throwback to the Bond girl of old, where she is always desperately in love with our suave secret agent hero, and usually only valuable as a pawn in the greater game between 007 and his supervillain nemeses.

(The argument there, depressing and perhaps true, is that while Rex, like his brother in Dallas, seems to be playing top-drawer defensive football, they both really preach and play a kind of throwback to their beloved Daddy's era, and all that showy blitzing and disguised blitzing ends up costing you more big plays — cf. the Giants game — than it gets you in shock-tactic sacks).

He viewed the shower scene technically and as a kind of quaint throwback.

Instead, it seems a kind of conceptual throwback, reminding me not of the scientists' labors, but of the images I grew up with: thunder lizards stomping through marsh lands, holding carnivores at bay with their sweeping tails and imposing size.

Mr. Haynes is not constitutionally a naturalist, though, and it's no surprise to hear him describe the naturalism of the series as itself a kind of artifice, a throwback to what he called the "dressed-down" style of the American cinema of the 1970s, when films like "The Godfather" and "Chinatown" were revising genres and, often, revisiting earlier eras.

My unease induced a kind of militant genetic throwback from a guy who in a genuinely good bloke.

I did worry about the Witch (since she's a woman of color) being perceived as some kind of throwback stereotype of a vodun priestess or something, but we didn't really have to change much about her, honestly she was always a spear-wielding, defined character in her own right, not a reference or callback.