Watching the documentary film Ballets Russes last week, I winced as ancient ballerinas, octogenarians if a day, retraced sequences from their Diaghilev-era youth dressed in backless leotards and diaphanous tutus, attitudes struck with dove hands and much dewy simpering.
After discovering there was no DNA left to check on the knife or the bra clasp, the experts retraced the steps taken by Stefanoni, concluding that the DNA trace of Kercher on the blade was so weak it could not be reliably matched – or was at best the result of contamination – and quoted Stefanoni admitting in court she should have double-tested her result to be more convincing.
When the Russians were blocked, the Polish bikers retraced the route they would have followed with the Night Wolves back to Warsaw.
Yields have since retraced that drop in Britain and bounced higher than before in America.
Richard Bernstein, a reporter and book reviewer for the New York Times and once a Beijing-based correspondent, retraced Xuan Zang's steps in "Ultimate Journey".
Using the tools of his trade, he retraced his own years as a crack addict and a drunk, reconstructing the life he had lived but not quite witnessed.
His 2011 novel, "Caribou Island", similarly retraced the Alaskan landscape of his youth to consider the disintegration of a family in the wake of a parent's suicide.
Again, as in the late 1850s and 1860s, Tocqueville rose to heights of popularity, especially in the 1990s in the United States, where his travels were retraced.
Thus, he retraced the route of the Carthaginian general Hannibal across the Alps and observed the siege of Carthage in 146 bce.
In 1746 William Moor and Francis Smith retraced Middleton's route almost exactly; they wintered at York Factory and in the summer of 1747 again probed the northwestern shores of the bay.
The Prix Femina was awarded to Simon Liberati for his biofictional Jayne Mansfield, 1967, which retraced the life of American starlet Jayne Mansfield backward from her death in a car accident in 1967 to the start of her career in 1950s Hollywood through those decades' transformative upheaval.
