Sentence examples for were retrograde from inspiring English sources

His racial views were retrograde, even for the times.

These were retrograde designs, following the barracks-like pattern of earlier model tenements, just plain buff brick with no decoration.

Hyman's lordly expectations of what he was due as the family patriarch were retrograde, even by the standards of the time.

While there were retrograde areas that resisted that process, it was hard to find a viable alternative civilisation that people actually wanted to live in after the discrediting of socialism, monarchy, fascism and other types of authoritarianism.

Cato's censorship impressed later generations but was too reactionary; his anti-Hellenic policies, in particular, were retrograde and lacked wide support.

While his views of the ideal society were retrograde, no one could excel him in specific criticisms of corruption and extravagance, harsh laws, low wages, absentee clergymen indeed, nearly everything that was wrong with England.

"The iPad is retrograde.

The second Russia is retrograde.

Much of this is retrograde.

The third motion is retrograde motion.

Yet stock car racing is retrograde, too.