Sentence examples for regressive characters from inspiring English sources

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Thomas Gladysz: You've noted that Pickford has been wrongly seen as a "woman who made a career (and a fortune) playing regressive characters in an era of female progress".

Even in the Origin of Species, Darwin pondered why evolution would favor regressive characters in these lineages, reasoning that eyes should at least be of little harm to cave organisms [ 1].

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The regressive character of the payroll tax, compared to the progressive structure of most other federal taxes, is clear in the accompanying chart (Fig. 1), from the Tax Policy Center: In the case of Social Security, proposals to raise the age of eligibility for full benefits amount to a benefit cut of 6 to 7 percent for every year that eligibility was increased.

Last year was a regressive one for LGBT characters in the genre with Get Hard and The Wedding Ringer both relying on lazy gay-panic humour, but Bad Neighbours 2 emerged in May as a surprisingly progressive example.

His characters are regressive; the men's attitude toward women tends to the basely consumerist (with the exception of the mild-mannered, uxorious Adrian), and their attitude toward life is conspicuously, commercially consumerist.

Consequently, relatively reductive or regressive stasis of morphological characters in the gossypii group made them more morphologically similar to one another than to other species-group.

Moreover, fuel taxes have become regressive, while the progressive character of taxes on the remaining car use commodities has weakened with time.

You may be familiar with one or more of the following familiar characters lost through regressive evolution: teeth in birds, scales in mammals, and tails in higher primates.

Cave dwelling species have long been studied by evolutionary biologists, not because of their adaptive characters, but rather for regressive characteristics, which include the loss of pigmentation and eyes.

The one time Deepika played a relatively nonconformist character was in the eminently regressive Cocktail.

Lewis is an artistic genius of visual and scenographic inventiveness, comic fury, technical originality, and philosophical perspective; but he's also a furious, reckless, regressive, id-plumbing revealer of the depths of his character by way of demands on his body.

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