Sentence examples for suggest a throwback to from inspiring English sources

GIN LANE The Gatsbyesque name, that of an oceanside street in Southampton, N.Y., is meant to suggest a throwback to an era of elegant continental dining in this place.

If his book's unfortunately stiff title and subtitle seem at first to suggest a throwback to a pre-Huntford traditionalism, it is actually something immensely more sophisticated: a rehabilitation of Scott that has nevertheless digested and acknowledged most of Huntford's critique, making it perhaps the most balanced biography yet.

With her blond hair, black cocktail dress and red high-heeled shoes, Ms. Paige, 63, suggested a throwback to London music-hall chanteuses from the period just before London swung.

"We are a throwback to the past.

You might think she's a throwback, but a throwback to what?

And it's a throwback to a bygone era.

"It felt like a throwback to the 1950s".

"Shara is a throwback to the old system.

Certainly the ad's a throwback to the Bush ways.

"He's a throwback to a more romantic time".

"It's like a throwback to the '90s.