| In the early seventies, aviation throwbacks would haul their rudimentary hang gliders up some remote hillock and leap off. |
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| Pretty much everyone looked at them as fascist scum at worst and pompous throwbacks at best. |
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| He came to view born criminals less as evolutionary throwbacks and more in terms of arrested development and degeneracy. |
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| Come next year these unexceptional throwbacks might have mutated into cunning reinventors. |
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| This year has seen a number of films that feel like throwbacks to the 70s, and I like that. |
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| The two aunts, originally meant to be stodgy and throwbacks to the Victorian age, come across immediately as warm, lovable eccentrics. |
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| These atavistic hind legs are nothing less than throwbacks to a totally pre-whale stage of their existence, some fifty million years ago. |
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| We must clean house and send every one of these evolutionary throwbacks to the pond from which they slithered. |
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| As already mentioned, one of the possible throwbacks to the past is our love of swimming. |
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| Of course those are throwbacks, but you have to remember how fast change has been. |
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| These evolutionary throwbacks, which don't have a true trunk and are unable to add any girth, have also come up with a highly creative solution. |
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| Because speckled trout tend to run in same-sized schools, conscientious anglers should abandon schools if the first few fish that come aboard are throwbacks. |
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| They are gangs of obnoxious caveman throwbacks whose behaviour would put our Neolithic ancestors to shame, throwing empty cans of lager or, in some cases, vomiting. |
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| Right off the bat I should say that just because this record has all kinds of '80s throwbacks on it doesn't immediately qualify it as a throwback album. |
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| Fans of the Coens, folk music and nostalgic throwbacks to 60s New York will love this film. |
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| With few exceptions, they are throwbacks, huge national monopolies that enjoy almost total protection from competition. |
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| Most judges are throwbacks from the Soviet era except that they are more corrupt. A few good things have happened. |
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| Yet they were also throwbacks to an earlier period of aristocratic patrons and politics pursued through poetry. |
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| Unless political will is present, throwbacks such as the embargo against Cuba will persist. |
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| His chief contention was the existence of a hereditary, or atavistic, class of criminals who are in effect biological throwbacks to a more primitive stage of human evolution. |
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| For all its Baudelairian modernity, there are throwbacks to an earlier time: the straw-hatted yokel in Moseley Weir, Morning looks as if he has wandered in from a Constable. |
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| The idea of these bigoted throwbacks to several centuries ago holding the balance of power should surely frighten even moderate Tories, let alone the rest of us. |
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| Throwbacks to a swell fashion trend of yesteryear, they spice up any pair of shoes, from ballet flats to mules or slinky stilettos. |
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