Sentence examples for retrogressive then from inspiring English sources

It seemed corny and retrogressive then.

It seemed so retrogressive, so contrary to all that I believed in, so unappreciative, to feel this way in even the smallest amount.

He wants to be so feminist, but his desires are so retrogressive.  .

I'm always willing to cop to my somewhat retrogressive knee-jerk reactions, so here goes.

This will provide a reference point from which changes can be measured.The team will then try to work out how the development of features such as "retrogressive thaw slumps" and "active-layer detachments" (different ways in which thawing permafrost can cause a hillside to slip) are associated with the local climate, geology and vegetation.

The Icod event was thus a multistage retrogressive failure, affecting successively the submarine flanks of the island and the basaltic shield, and then the phonolitic-trachytic series of the Las Cañadas edifice49.

Even then, however, the idea of linking a physical card to a digital wallet seemed somewhat retrogressive.

Not because it is too radical, rightwing or retrogressive - the way David has been going recently - but because it is so New Old Labour.

In 1951, when the piece was premiered in Venice, Stravinsky, then in his late 60s, must have known that it would be seen by younger modernists as a retrogressive step.

But retrogressive it is not.

Eastern observers considered this retrogressive.