Sentence examples for retrograde about from inspiring English sources

But there is also something distinctly retrograde about it.

Sure, there's something retrograde about using comely women as ornamentation.

Yet there's nothing fusty or retrograde about his approach.

Ari's omission — he could just have said "people" — is indicative of what is blinkered, obtuse, one-sided, and retrograde about the movie.

By Richard Brody June 4, 2015 The slightness of the women's roles in "Entourage" is indicative of what is obtuse and retrograde about the movie.

By almost any standards, there's plenty that can be called weird and retrograde about Burne-Jones's art: its fervent historicism, its relentless busyness, its frequent sentimentality.

Tess is a psychiatrist whose latest book, "Through the Looking Glass: Senescence in Retrograde," is about to be published.

This simplistic view of how genetic markers work strengthens retrograde notions about about "blood quantum" and race.

The duration of this retrograde motion is about 72 days.

This rate is somewhat slower than those in a retrograde direction of about 1 µm sec−1 in cultured hippocampal neurons of the mouse [21] and dendrites of C. elegans [19].

You know exactly what it's going to say, because the shame-journalism genre is just so... straightforward: single out some demographic – much more often women than men – then argue that they should feel awful about how they dress, look, behave or otherwise offend various retrograde expectations about how people ought to be.