Sentence examples for seems retrograde from inspiring English sources

The public has a right to see and hear them, and the court's refusal to allow stationary cameras in the chamber seems retrograde.

"But what about my project?" "It seems retrograde and silly," the professor said, "but for five hundred large I will endorse certain strains of your proposal, without getting behind the thing completely".

Instructivist transmission-based teaching seems retrograde to contemporary educationalists who favour more social constructivist approaches to teaching and learning, where the emphasis is on co-construction of knowledge through interaction with students.

At a time when we poke and tweet our friends and followers without ever truly touching them, Sasha's effort to connect with strangers in the real world seems retrograde, almost quaint.

You don't have to look far for the previous example where Apple's actions seemed retrograde.

The 1981 edition of "The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding" summed up the group's opposition to working motherhood: "Our plea to any mother who is thinking about taking an outside job is, 'if at all possible, don't.' " A generation earlier, La Leche was almost radical; now, to feminists, it seemed retrograde.

Indeed it might well seem retrograde to do otherwise.

When some people in the U.S. hear that Greece is considering a return to the drachma it can seem retrograde, a throwback to a pre-globalized, even Cold War period.

"It seems so retrograde to leave.

Modern beer drinkers crave flavour – trying to hold back that tide back seems pointless, retrograde even.

It seems curiously retrograde on a system that otherwise oozes class, quality and sophistication.