| 单词 | retrogressive |
| 例句 | His work would have looked right at home in the Neo-Expressionist 1980s, when artists like Anselm Kiefer and Julian Schnabel were turning out their gassy retrogressive masterpieces. Art Review: Thomas Houseago’s Outsize Sculptures at Storm King 2013-08-01T22:25:24Z The German and Austrian critics have complained about his lack of a retrogressive style. 'Exterminating Angel,' the most anticipated opera of the year, proves it's here to stay 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Though I don't much like the present day, I'm not ready to undertake any such retrogressive time‑travelling. Dante in Love by AN Wilson ? review 2011-07-15T08:00:01Z To true believers, the “Woman” paintings were profoundly retrogressive. Art Review: ?De Kooning: A Retrospective? at MoMA - Review 2011-09-15T11:00:58Z Unlike Ben-Haim, whose music was somewhat retrogressive in style, Kopytman incorporated dissonance and extended instrumental techniques familiar from the work of Bartok, and the strident brutality played to the Ariel’s strengths. Ariel Quartet pays tribute to Israeli composers and folk music 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z It was a big international hit – though celebrated more abroad than at home, where it was sometimes criticised as retrogressive. Step-by-step guide to dance: National Ballet of China 2011-08-11T16:28:27Z The implication of revolution remained, but the results were retrogressive. The Music Academy of the West's grand adventure 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z The level of unapologetic conjecture I’ve encountered lately isn’t just frustrating, it’s retrogressive, unprecedented and absolutely terrifying. Kanye crosses the line: The 13th Amendment is sacred, especially when all are still not free 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z "Stopping foreigners from doing legitimate business in Kenya is retrogressive. We need to see how to build the capacity of Kenyans to be able to produce competitive products," says Kenyan economist Gerrishon Ikiara. China Square: The cheap Chinese shop at the centre of Kenya row 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z What could be crazier and more retrogressive was the lavish 1961 movie adaptation of “West Side Story,” which has now been lavishly remade by Steven Spielberg and opens in theaters today. Commentary: Does 'West Side Story' work best as a film? An opera? Neither? 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z “When our dictionary infuses a pastime that promises joy with toxic language instead, it is retrogressive and powerfully divisive.” Merriam-Webster promoted a word game littered with offensive terms — the latest reckoning over language in the puzzle world 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z It, like many other good things, must, however, be saved from today’s profoundly retrogressive progressivism. Opinion | Rejecting meritocracy clashes with America’s basic premises 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Cheney, you understand, committed no sin against her party’s retrogressive orthodoxy. Liz Cheney stands up to mutiny, mendacity 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z He believed that his progressive actions for women would be a shield against his retrogressive behavior. Opinion | Cuomo Discovers #MeToo Means #HimToo 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z "Many of them would not have been pre-cleared because they are in fact retrogressive of minority voting rights," Elias said. Republicans roll out “tidal wave of voter suppression” with 253 restrictive bills in 43 states 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z His melodic ideas were were terrific but retrogressive, and he thrice broke off writing it before abandoning the work seemingly for good. Review: It's all Stravinsky all the time, but let's not forget Schoenberg 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Here, those evolutionary limbs also play a retrogressive role. Review: A child in 'The Ditch' and other mesmerizing moments in 'Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings' at the Getty 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z And this retrogressive crackdown is doubly disheartening considering we’re the capital of a nation that prides itself on a commitment to freedom of speech. Opinion | The D.C. Council again failed to make some street singing unlawful. Good. 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Chris Evans ripped into one of the entertainment industry’s most famous pro-Trump celebrities this weekend over a “terrifying” and “retrogressive” message. Kanye West’s MAGA tweet triggers Chris Evans; ‘Captain America’ rips ‘terrifying’ artist 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Amid the dark hailstorm of her father, Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, she sold herself as the sunny morning — the one who would temper her father’s retrogressive and sometimes wretched moves. Opinion | Ivanka and Vodka, on the Rocks 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Poland, a mini-USA in many ways, is yet another drag on the European project, a project which is essentially progressive, whereas Poland is retrogressive. Poland Overhauls Courts, and Critics See Retreat From Democracy 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Coal mining, relatively speaking, is a small, steadily diminishing, retrogressive energy - and jobs - source. Protesters Jeer as Trump Team Promotes Coal at U.N. Climate Talks 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z This all in the end is another Conservative exercise in retrogressive stupidity that's already backfiring against them, as well it should. Opinion | The Worrisome Future of Abortion Rights 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z They seem to have souls—that ultimate retrogressive term!—though by “soul” we need imply nothing more metaphysical here than the sum total of one person’s affect in the mind of another. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Imaginary Portraits 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z The Sierra Club’s website warns readers that Trump “is poised to lead the most anti-science and retrogressive administration in history.” Trump moves cast cloud over climate change work in Maryland 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z You will not be cowed or discouraged by his stream of retrogressive babble. From the desk of 'Parks and Recreation's' Leslie Knope, a letter about Donald Trump 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z A silly, frustrating game, with some deeply retrogressive aspects attending its role in broader society. The 2016 Masters: Can Phil Mickelson Beat the Young Guns? 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z And since this has happened, I've been more careful running lyrics by people who might be sensitive to that kind of retrogressive stance. Weezer's Rivers Cuomo is getting 'comeback' fatigue 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z A Punjabi short-story author, he said he was giving back the award to protest the “violent retrogressive forces dictating terms in the field of literature and culture.” With Return of Prize, India’s Literary Stars Protest Rising Intolerance 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z G. S. Bhullar, a short-story author, said he was giving back the same award to protest the “violent retrogressive forces dictating terms in the field of literature and culture.” India Writers Return Awards to Protest Government Silence on Violence 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z In particular, he warned of “retrogressive evolution” because he believed blacks were reproducing faster than what he considered to be intellectually superior whites. Nobel Laureates We’d Like To Forget 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z We want to celebrate the physical objects but not in a retrogressive way, so this isn’t about making some statement that life was better in the 70s when everyone bought records. Future Artefacts fair seeks to show physical media far from dead 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z Democrats see the issue as one that allows them to hold up their nominee as empathetic and compassionate, while portraying the Republican as retrogressive and out of touch. G.O.P. Hopefuls Denounce Marriage Equality Ruling 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z We thought of ourselves, my lot, as tolerant and progressive, and we are leaving you an intolerant and retrogressive world. Salman Rushdie to Grads: Try to Be Larger Than Life 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z With 21 months left in office and his ambitious trade agenda hanging in the balance, President Obama is finally challenging his party’s retrogressive stance. President Obama Finally Challenges His Party's Trade Skeptics 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Holder, took away the ability to preemptively challenge some of the most pernicious and retrogressive anti-voter laws before they discriminated against minorities. Selma 50 years later: More bridges to cross 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z Suffice it to say, the movie is fraught with retrogressive ideas about gender roles and sex. Least sexy scene in 'Fifty Shades' is also the most progressive 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z “We do not want to be viewed as a state that’s retrogressive; we want to be viewed as a state that’s progressive.” Arkansas Legislative Black Caucus supports holiday change 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z The most immediate is the Muslim Brotherhood, whose republican Islamist model of governance represents a direct challenge to the kingdom’s monarchical system based on support from the retrogressive Salafist religious establishment. With King Abdullah's Death, the Saudi Kingdom Enters Uncharted Waters 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z “But I’m not so sure based on what I see. I feel like there’s been a cultural trend that’s very retrogressive. You sometimes question, did feminism happen?” In Alaska, will reproductive rights make the difference? 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z "It is a pity that current policy is retrogressive in this respect." Sats calculator ban 'backward step' 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z But Mugabe presented a different view, calling "the immediate past ... retrogressive because of the inclusive government". Zimbabwe's Mugabe rejects West's criticism of his re-election 2013-08-07T17:07:13Z Extensions also reflect a retrogressive attitude towards women's place in society, she says. The hair trade's dirty secret 2012-10-28T20:00:01Z What is safe to say is that she was a Janus-headed figure in women’s history, simultaneously progressive and retrogressive in her approach to women’s social roles. Helen Gurley Brown, Who Gave Cosmopolitan Its Purr, Is Dead at 90 2012-08-13T21:30:01Z The British team made no attempt to hide their disdain for the retrogressive way that their competitors approached the sport. Bradley Wiggins: the undisputed king of the road 2012-07-21T23:04:33Z "You have to have evidence that it will not have a retrogressive effect." Judges ask tough questions about Texas voter ID law at trial 2012-07-14T00:36:14Z In addition to all other faults, I hold that this philosophy, or phantasm of philosophy, is eminently retrogressive. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z It is possible that our seeming progress may be retrogressive, that the true apex may have been reached in Greece some two thousand years ago. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z I know too little about organic pleasure and its conditions, and will not be at all surprised if the retrogressive character of the analysis leads us back finally to a generalized factor. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z Yet the two cases just described may have arteries of identical structure, there being no more retrogressive changes in the one than in the other. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z In 1807 it declared for an unwise and retrogressive policy, with a very clear understanding of what it meant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Indeed, on the other hand, there is always a certain amount of variation, either progressive or retrogressive. Embryology The Beginnings of Life 2011-09-12T02:00:28.483Z "The President wishes to assure Nigerians that he will not be distracted ... by the actions of terrorists and retrogressive elements in the country," the statement said. Nigeria president vows more security after U.N. bomb 2011-08-30T12:05:11Z The imperial cities of Thuringia and Suabia, although perfectly independent in a political point of view, were nevertheless intimately united with the general progressive or retrogressive movement of the whole German race. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z From the point of view of general culture the retrogressive nature of Christianity is unmistakable. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z And is a stagnant, torpid, and retrogressive state of mentality, a natural or an unnatural condition—a sane, or an insane state? Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z He has also pointed out that morbid proclivities and retrogressive tendencies are peculiarly rife among mulattoes. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Many of the differences that separate man from anthropoids of the Sivapithecus type are retrogressive changes, following the profound change in food habits above noted. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Thus it has ever been in periods of decay; thus it will be with us when we have once reached that point whence every movement is retrogressive. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Such equality would be a brutal and retrogressive view of woman's rights. Anti-Suffrage Essays 2011-03-28T02:00:24.710Z That Conference produced a profound impression not only on the individuals composing it, but also, with a few exceptions of a retrogressive or perverted type, upon the classes represented, and consequently upon the whole community. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z After that period, though changes in the organism still continue, they are retrogressive changes, and as such might fairly be excluded from any account of development, which clearly implies progression, not retrogression. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z It was an exceptional moment, a vacillating, retrogressive hour in the history of Austria, of France, and of Italy. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z "Many see this as unjust and have begun to co-ordinate with each other and put pressure on retrogressive societies," she says. Ripple effect 2010-02-23T08:31:00Z Every strike, every riot, is a retrogressive step in our nation’s history. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 His proposals appear, with one exception, to have been decidedly retrogressive, and, further, to incorporate the most undesirable features of those earlier systems he chose to borrow from. Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 One of the techs, who fancied himself a psychologist, said the boys were suffering from retrogressive dementia. The Kenzie Report First of all its progress will be arrested, and then it will become retrogressive. The Forerunners The Celts are not among the progressive, initiative races, but among those which supply the materials rather than the impulse of history, and are either stationary or retrogressive. The History of Freedom Whilst in the provinces of science and art the German people are generally progressive, in politics the German Government is consistently retrogressive. German Problems and Personalities Activity is then not inimical to the organism, but is the appointed means by which the progressive and retrogressive metamorphoses must be carried out. Pedagogics as a System The life and well-being of the United are at stake, and it is imperative that the membership exercise the most careful and independent reflection before accepting the views of radicals bent on retrogressive experiments. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 But the retrogressive efforts of patriotism are fruitless. The Forerunners The first course, the Socialist holds, is not only cruel and unjust to the innocent child, but an entirely barbaric and retrogressive thing to do. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism Upon their surfaces and within their clefts and fissures they undergo retrogressive changes, softening, bleeding, or ulcerations. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle Both these forces are essential to an orderly, and to a progressive, social life; but they may just as easily become the cause of movements that are retrogressive, and even anti-social in character. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development To just the extent that the former is true, this part of the work would be pauperizing and retrogressive, but we do not consider the former to be true. The Social Work of the Salvation Army "Thus saith the Lord" cried Joe Smith, and Mormonism springs up in the practical West, with its buried gold tablets of revelation and its retrogressive polygamy. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) There is the awful feud ’twixt England, the modern spirit making toward progress and civilization, and Spain, the well-nigh worn-out retrogressive force that would dam the river of human thought. In the Days of Drake When these tubercles are sufficiently numerous to become confluent, large masses may be formed, which undergo the same retrogressive changes of caseation and calcification. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle The precession of the equinoxes is slowly progressive, or rather retrogressive; the nutation of the pole oscillatory in a period of about eighteen years. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition In one direction, however, the results of Radama's policy must be regarded as retrogressive. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century In this sense it was reactionary and retrogressive. The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy She could not pledge herself to unconditional loyalty to the Government—certainly not if the Government took any retrogressive step. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Among declining nations, many of these developments take a retrogressive road. Principles Of Political Economy Were the retrogressive ideas of the Jewish Nationalists ever to materialize, the world would witness, after a few years, that one Jew is being persecuted by another. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 It has allowed itself to be made a cat’s paw by the National Divorce League for its retrogressive policy. Buchanan's Journal of Man, May 1887 Volume 1, Number 4 The doctrines of communism and of nihilism are the products of retrogressive genius and are clearly atavistic, inasmuch as they are a reversion to the mental habitudes of our savage ancestors. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire The operation is repeated from time to time, and as a result the new growth undergoes retrogressive changes, and cicatrization takes place. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine The violent struggle between an imperious dogmatism and an unintelligent and mistaken attempt at a retrogressive movement is resolved into a higher view, which permits the union of conservatism and progress. Principles Of Political Economy The excitement of the war into which the whole country was immediately precipitated, cut off, however, every chance of any such retrogressive movement. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy During the first French revolution it successfully destroyed the old social system; but its attempts to reorganise society were retrogressive. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Vandamme began, in the presence of the victor, a retrogressive movement, which ought to have been accomplished under shadow of the darkness. Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II To what a depth of moral degradation the nation might have sunk under the thus retrogressive influences of ungodly Mammon, setting God and Christianity at total defiance, may not easily be conjectured. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Milton V. Kline, professor of psychology at Long Island University, postulates that hypnosis is primarily retrogressive. A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis Sullivan's youth and early life had been passed amid more or less Liberal influences, but of late he had shown a retrogressive tendency in political matters. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion For radical democracy will not only be without danger, but useful and invaluable in the struggle of the progressive and collectivist capitalists against the retrogressive and individualist capitalists. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement Although not retrogressive, he had drunk deep at the springs of Bach, Schubert, and Mozart, and the basis of his work was sound. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story One retrogressive influence fails to find positive official expression, and is, therefore, the more worthy of notice. The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 Progressive changes can be satisfactorily accounted for by natural selection; retrogressive changes are susceptible of explanation along similar lines. Applied Eugenics That in reality, far from being "advanced," the profession of Socialism is as retrogressive as would be a return to the side-whiskers and plaid trousers of the last century, does not occur to them. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements The reformer who was so recently "retrogressive" had now become a rival in reform. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement Marriage also, corrupted as it is in the existent society by economic considerations, is ordinarily in practice a sort of retrogressive sexual selection. Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) With men of his type logic is largely retrogressive: the conclusion is reached first; the reasons follow. The Parts Men Play It involves the black slave, of course, and might lead to a true retrogressive progress—even to the Harîm. The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts Since this time the original or Adi Somaj has been little heard of, and its movement—if it has moved at all—has been retrogressive. Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans One night our Mr. Bowles came home late from a meeting of the P.P.S., fell asleep at once and had what he regarded as a "transmigratory experience in a retrogressive sense." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 The invaders who absorbed Sumerian civilization may have secured more settled conditions by welding together political units, but seem to have exercised a retrogressive influence on the growth of local culture. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria He detects their influence in things musical, and writes thus: In Music a retrogressive step in which there is much hope, has been taken. Charles Dickens and Music But that this parasite has a special affinity for consumptive tissue there is no question, and that it thrives therein with great rapidity, hastening retrogressive changes, is also to be granted. Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 The retrogressive Doctor Hanchett had been quite an exquisite in the matter of apparel compared with this tatterdemalion. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 This dropping-back on the part of the educated woman is a real danger to culture; in her retrogressive movement she tries to drag man after her and prevents him from moving forward. The Darling and Other Stories The retrogressive tendencies of the masses were invariably reinforced by the periodic invasions of aliens who had no respect for official deities and temple creeds. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Yet we see that our days are retrogressive in every way. Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I But he draws no conclusion except that spiritualism is retrogressive. Cock Lane and Common-Sense But that of Louis Philippe was not a stagnant or retrogressive régime. What I Remember, Volume 2 Hence the course of science is often retrogressive. Essays of Schopenhauer Hence all the Zola heredity and Ibsen heredity that has been written in our time affects me as not merely evil, but as essentially ignorant and retrogressive. All Things Considered Dora attempted to restrain her, but in spite of all her efforts was obliged to follow the retrogressive animal. The Girl at Cobhurst In five short years the world and the scope of human life have undergone a retrogressive change as great as that between the age of the Antonines and the Europe of the ninth century.... The War in the Air Even though these farmers are independent, they were poverty-stricken, but this was not at all due to the retrogressive and closed nature of self-sufficient agriculture. Down with the Cities There has already been, amongst the same prison experts, a certain retrogressive movement in regard to isolation. Criminal Sociology Thus, thanks to the hypothesis of God, all conservative or retrogressive opposition, every dilatory plea offered by theology, tradition, or selfishness, finds itself peremptorily and irrevocably set aside. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery It is the bourgeoisie which, more than any other class, is conservative and retrogressive. What is Property? They say he is the most retrogressive man in the county. Middlemarch If the farmers of both former and modern ages were destitute because of agriculture's retrogressive character, then why is modern petroleum-based agriculture, as represented by American agriculture, suffering under such onerous debts? Down with the Cities The jury, then, is a retrogressive institution, as shown by history and sociology, for it represents the mediaeval and instinctive phase of criminal justice. Criminal Sociology We ought to have been retrogressive yesterday, according to the time calculated on for our stock of provisions; but we could not leave the river without tracing it to the furthest accesible point. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Man's physical evolution has virtually ceased, but in so far as any change is being effected, it is largely retrogressive. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments The Arab woman is the repository of all the accumulated nonsense of the race, and her influence upon the young brood is retrogressive and malign. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia The town, or the Cathedral part of it, was dominated by one man, and that man a stupid, autocratic, retrogressive, good-natured child. The Cathedral The roads were obliged to institute many cramping economies which to them very often meant the using up of their corpus and to the business world of the United States a permeating retrogressive influence. A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States Standing a few feet away from the water-hole, the black so manipulates the line that the noose encircles the tail of the prawn, which, making a retrogressive dart upon alarm, finds itself fatally snared. Tropic Days In the case of negative or retrogressive varieties it is the transition from the active into a dormant state to which is due the origin of the variety. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation The congestion is relieved by rupture of the smallest blood vessels, and there follow other retrogressive steps which completely restore the various structures to their former state. The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy Slip of the screw, positive and negative slip; lateral and retrogressive slip. A Catechism of the Steam Engine Hence it frequently happens that the course of science is retrogressive. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature The other resource of the boatless islander was another description of float, also retrogressive from the log; the idea not transmitted to him by any high-minded bird, but forced upon his attention by elemental strife. Tropic Days Contrasted with this method of growing differentiation, are the retrogressive modifications, which simply retrace a step, and the degressive changes in which a backward step is retraced and old characters revived. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation This is the atavistic type of criminals which represents an involutionary, or retrogressive, form of abnormality, due to an arrested development or an atavistic reversion to a savage and primitive type. The Positive School of Criminology Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901 And he held that they were not a progressive but a retrogressive society; that their statutes still held good. The Velvet Glove Yet it may unquestionably bring about definite retrogressive changes in the secondary sex characters: reduction or loss of virility, diminution of facial and body hair, and a general presenility or hastening of senility. The Glands Regulating Personality The list of odd jobs which fall to his lot would be ridiculous, were not their influence upon his life and work so retrogressive and so sad. The Warriors Only one or two exceptions could be quoted, as for instance the Oenothera brevistylis, which in its crosses always behaves as a pure retrogressive variety. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Now the average white man, per se, is just as bestial, just as stupid, just as inelastic, just as stagnative, just as retrogressive, as the average savage. The Little Lady of the Big House He may be printing "Gold and the Proletariate," or he may be printing obscurantist and retrogressive treatises by the enemies of humanity. Philistia The same process can also be tried retrogressively, and so repeated forward and backward. Man or Matter To them mankind are therefore indebted for the preservation of whatever civilization was then extant, and for stopping the retrogressive course of the human race. The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges The first is the absolute sterility of so many beautiful hybrids, and the second is the common occurrence of retrogressive characters among cultivated plants. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Naturally, he chooses the latter move as he cannot improve his position by a retrogressive play which still further retards his development. Chess and Checkers : the Way to Mastership Plato would have said that to seek the Idea of Beauty in Emilia Viviani was a retrogressive step. Percy Bysshe Shelley But the order of succession in imagination is not determined, and the series of successive representations may be taken retrogressively as well as progressively. The Critique of Pure Reason He resembled one of his own gilt-edged securities, and to knock the gilt off by seeing anything he could avoid seeing, would be, he felt instinctively, perverse and retrogressive. To Let In the case of retrogressive changes the visible modification is due, at least in the best known instances, to the reduction of an active quality to a state of inactivity or latency. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Evidently no door was to be left open for retrogressive consideration. A History of the Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the Events Culminating in the Great Conflict Even the comprehensive knowledge and the penetrating intellect of Aristotle failed to suggest to him that in holding the eternity of the world, within its present range of mutation, he was making a retrogressive step. Evolution and Ethics ALGAE, retrogressive metamorphosis in. -division of zoospores of, ALLEN, J., birds in United States. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 When they and their action are impaired, the organism ceases to react with precision to the environment, and the organism as a whole undergoes retrogressive changes. Darwin and Modern Science The sugar is only accumulated as a result of an incapacity of changing it into starch, and the lack of this capacity is to be considered as a retrogressive varietal mark. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation It is not man as man who opposes the attempt of woman to readjust herself to the new conditions of life: that opposition arises, perhaps more often, from the retrogressive members of her own sex. Woman and Labour In retrogressive evolution, the contrary would be the case. Evolution and Ethics The dirty retrogressive Boer vanished from our scheme of illusion. The New Machiavelli In contrast to this, the two other cases are called retrogressive and degressive mutability. Darwin and Modern Science When undergoing further modifications, some of them may be in the progressive line and others in the retrogressive. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation We may at once proceed to the retrogressive or negative varieties. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation The phenomena of atavism seem to show that retrogressive evolution that is, the return of a species to one or other of its earlier forms, is a possibility to be reckoned with. Evolution and Ethics He finds that some are progressive and others retrogressive and so his investigation falls under two heads, the origin of progressive characters, and the subsequent loss of the same. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation In the case of retrogressive and degressive mutability the internal cause is at once apparent, for it is this which causes the disappearance or reappearance of some character. Darwin and Modern Science Hence we conclude, that even the smallest steps in the evolution of plants which we are able to observe, may be divided into progressive, retrogressive and degressive ones. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Contrasted to this is the loss, or the latency of characters, and this may be designated retrogressive or retrograde evolution. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation |
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