"We are a throwback to the past.
"They view Hillary Clinton as a throwback to the past".
We love a good throwback to the past.
In many ways, the combination is spot-on: the glistening pool deck, for example, is hip (and gorgeous); the maddening wait for one of the two clunky elevators in the lobby, however, is an irritating throwback to the technology of yesteryear.
Rashford's introduction at Hull City last Saturday felt like a throwback to the United of yesteryear, back in the days when the most thrilling sight in football was watching Sir Alex Ferguson's teams chasing a game, and when the Premier League resumes it might be that Manchester City's first team fear him a lot more than their academy one used to.
But at the same time, we're also seeing a slew of apps that, in a throwback to the cyberspace of yesteryear, promise not to remember too much in the first place by playing on a sense of anonymity whereby the content creator's identity is kept hidden.
By Karina Yan Glaser (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99). In this delightful and heartwarming throwback to the big-family novels of yesteryear, a large biracial family might lose their beloved brownstone home, but win it back with an all-out charm offensive.
In yet another case of the restaurant living up to the hype, Famous Fish Market is a throwback to the earthy, humble restaurants of yesteryear; they may only offer a handful of specialties, but they pull them off damn well.
"Fascist man," he wrote, was "a throwback to the warrior and property holder of yesteryear, to the type of man who was the head of a family and a clan: When this type of man ceases to win esteem and disappears, then the process of decadence begins".
You might think she's a throwback, but a throwback to what?
