As the drums of national retreat sound across Europe (and the UK takes over as chair of the Council of Europe), noticing the human person seems more like the pressing constitutional imperative of our age.
Or, if a wilderness corporate retreat sounds more enticing, you and your employees can hold your retreat while admiring the great outdoors.
All Wednesday, the road out of Debaltseve into government-held territory thundered to the sound of retreating armour - tanks and troop carriers full of exhausted, sometimes defiant soldiers.
In many ways, Homogenic, released in September 1997, was the sound of Björk retreating from the spotlight after the huge success of Debut and Post – albeit in a combative way.
He used a tense, shaking, sobbing voice; he shouted in long tones, and the sounds retreated into a kind of nasal whining — a lonely and piercing sound.
I'm actually retreating to vinyl... Vinyl sounds better, if you can put up with the pops and the clicks.
Raime's first full-length record, "Quarter Turns Over a Living Line" (Blackest Ever Black), has slow and regular rhythms clicking through it, surrounded by big bass frequencies, traces of guitar and bass and bowed strings, with clean or crackling sounds advancing and retreating into the mix.
But Jonathan Greenspan, the president of the co-op board of 3 Hanover Square, sees the proposal as a retreat from sound planning policy.
Looking out over the glittering flats of the wetlands and the surreal undulating flow of the giant sand dunes, this posada is a peaceful retreat (the sound of the Pacific is also therapeutic).
He compared well yesterday with Cameron giving his Big Society another airing, between every line the sound of the state retreating.
