“Many of course would stop here and dismiss this inherently nostalgic call for a revalidation of the beautiful as hopelessly retrograde and unproductive.”

“The appellant asserts that the building was uninhabitable when he moved in, and that to return it to that state would be a retrograde step.”

“… the loft's retrograde decor seeks to capture the look and feel of the swinging '60s.”

“… the Dark Ages, the period following the fall of the Roman Empire when Western civilization seriously retrograded.”