Sentence examples for retrograde vision from inspiring English sources

In 1970, a group of feminists led by Kate Millett staged a sit-in at Ms. Brown's office, protesting what they saw as her retrograde vision of womanhood.

His more moderate centrist opponent, Alain Juppé, has accused Fillon of wanting to drag France back into the past, with "an extremely traditionalist vision, not to say slightly retrograde vision, of the role of women, the family and marriage".

If she does, it may be a symbol not of a retrograde vision, but of a free-spirited woman with the confidence to make a man's world her own.

The richest and most radical presidential candidate in modern times, Romney offers a retrograde vision for America and a surprising set of weaknesses.

I admire their efforts, and those of their soldiers, to try to salvage something decent in Iraq, especially when you see who we are losing to — Sunni suicide jihadists and Shiite militants, who murder fellow Muslims by the dozen and whose retrograde visions offer Iraqis only a future of tears.

Using a targeted knockdown strategy to model the most common CEP290 mutation in LCA patients, we found body curvature defects, KV size reduction, delayed retrograde melanosome transport and vision impairment.

Our observation was compatible with the canonical view that bony compression at foramina causes neural degeneration in retrograde fashion, then brings loss of vision.

It broke through no visual or conceptual precedents, it was staunchly insular and, at times, defiantly retrograde in its desire to cling to an agrarian vision of utopia in an increasingly multicultural and technologically advanced country.

From a Western perspective, Ming's method offers an odd vision of empowerment, achieved through pragmatic acceptance of a retrograde model of marriage.

We members of this suburban empire still find ourselves veering off into world crises, roaring into battle with visions of progressive virtue on our side and retrograde evil on the other, waging moralistic crusades others do not understand, pushing our movie, TV and rock-star fantasies onto an ambivalent and sometimes horrified globe.

But under the guise of being salaciously liberating and radically feminist, the vision of modern femininity in "Sex and the City" is in fact surprisingly retrograde.