Sentence examples for retrograde style from inspiring English sources

He also has detractors who dismiss him as a cagey old lecher working in a retrograde style.

Alessandro Michele's style is consciously retrograde, historical even.

Laugh at the blunders Mercury retrograde brings your way.

Where garden-city planners had seen chaos in mixed usage, these authors saw diversity and neighborhood vitality; what architectural purists regarded as a retrograde and degraded melange of styles, these authors defended as rich historical layering.

They do not stock anything as trendy or futuristic as DVDs: no, they rent out dusty old-style video cassettes at a dollar a pop to the similarly retrograde locals.

And as Ms. Edwards suggests, whenever you hear non-Western art discussed, as frequently happens, in terms of stereotypes like timelessness and universality, or as a set of attractive styles rather than a body of challenging ideas, you are on retrograde turf.

Hence, retrograde.

Snobbish and retrograde.

"The iPad is retrograde.

— rather than retrograde.

"Your ruler has turned retrograde".