Sentence examples for retrograde notion from inspiring English sources

That this a retrograde notion of gender roles goes without saying.

We should not be comfortable with the retrograde notion that charity should be the default mode of providing social security.

Does chick lit propagate a retrograde notion of women as shallow cretins – or reflect their nuanced reality?

At one point, he mentioned that Curry had "lost control of his wife on Twitter" during the Finals, which is the kind of casually retrograde notion about gender roles that Simmons's critics have long pointed to as evidence of misogyny.

But dark pictures with retrograde notions of race do not help keep young American Jews in the fold.

He was pithy, undiplomatic and had notoriously retrograde notions about women, yet he kept people's affection by being, as his daughter Michal put it at his funeral, "a prince and not a king": patrician, but never pretentious.Many Israelis also felt they shared the tragedy of his son, Shaul, grievously wounded by an Egyptian sniper's bullet while serving in the Sinai in 1970.

They recognized that religion was not just a matter of belief, but that it sat upon a welter of concerns that touched on architecture, art, nature, marriage, death, ritual and that by getting rid of God, one would also be dispensing with a whole raft of very useful, if often peculiar and sometimes retrograde, notions that had held societies together since the beginning of time.

However, the families and coaches of India's newest sporting stars pushed back against such retrograde notions.

Distal alpha-synuclein deposition might induce retrograde axonal degeneration, a notion which is supported by the observation that alpha-synuclein aggregates in cardiac autonomic nerves are more abundant in the distal part of the nerve and precede aggregation in the corresponding sympathetic ganglia [ 41].

The notion of causation is seen as a scientifically retrograde relic of Stone Age metaphysics.

A later notion holds that nearly all women get this "retrograde menstruation," but the body usually knows how to get rid of it.