Sentence examples for the retrogressive from inspiring English sources

Architecture has moved light years away from the retrogressive focus-group sensibility embraced by corporate firms.

He is working toward breakthroughs on multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, spinal cord injuries, strokes, breast cancer and a host of other diseases, and is worried by the retrogressive attitude about science and medicine among the new crop of Tea Partiers.

There is little danger of encountering anything like official propaganda, since the Arab novelist stands, almost by definition — as a thinker, as a conduit of intellectual life — in opposition to the retrogressive forces in the modern Arab state.

When I ask Fox about the obsessive interest in an athlete's transition, she brings up the retrogressive idea that, despite the fact that there are actually many female athletes, sports are men's domain.

Azad wrote an open letter to Gopalakrishnan in which she questioned the "retrogressive, barbaric, and misogynist customs" and took to Twitter and Facebook posting photos of herself holding up sanitary pads along with the words "Happy to Bleed".

But it was the "retrogressive" style that upset Ferguson — because it was when Orson Welles, an "artist" director, joined the toughness and cynicism and the verbal skills of the thirties to that incomparable, faintly absurd, wonderfully overblown style of his that people said "art".

The housing proposal has the same retrogressive edge as the president's welfare renewal bill approved this week by the Republican House.

A critical question remains unanswered concerning the cause of the intrinsic retrogressive changes in cell and organ structure and function that occur throughout the aging process.

We have totally compromised that, and in every respect, the utterly retrogressive plan Obama endorses--the 26-page Schumer outline--institutionalizes the worst excesses of the Bush years.

This lack of regard to the convention, coupled with the potentially retrogressive impact of these reforms, risks placing the UK in breach of its international obligations.

Iraq has been undergoing the same retrogressive transformation since the U.S. invaded in 2003; women in both countries have lost ground as the priority has shifted from peace and prosperity to the absolute primitivism of a war for survival.