And in 1985, when Grace Bumbry was a sensation as Bess in a Metropolitan Opera production, she slammed the opera: "I thought it beneath me, I felt I had worked far too hard, that we had come far too far to have to retrogress to 1935." ❋ Unknown (2010)
I'm not advocating that women retrogress to the brainless housewives of the '50s who spent afternoons baking macaroni sculptures and keeping Betty Crocker files. ❋ Unknown (2008)
So while Black communities retrogress into crime, poverty and hopelessness, with Black families in tatters and living in a kind of pervasive chaos that exists on a day-to-day basis, these Black leaders offer carefully crafted “politically correct” speeches, sport natty Armani suits, and boast about how they are the only “Blacks on the block where white people live.” ❋ Unknown (2007)
All six called for peaceful and democratic elections with the leader of the main opposition Ernest Koroma of the All People's Congress (APC) stressing that "the polls will put Sierra Leone in a position to advance or retrogress". ❋ Unknown (2007)
By contrast, he writes, "when living standards stagnate or decline, most societies make little if any progress toward any of these goals, and in all too many instances they plainly retrogress." ❋ Unknown (2007)
The whole area will retrogress into chaotic conditions. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Should we continue to stagnate or retrogress while the rest of the world moves forward? ❋ Unknown (2000)
Naturally, we must not retrogress in agriculture because, in reality, agriculture is one of the fields in which we must make a greater effort for productivity. ❋ Unknown (1978)
Why did they believe that with a brigade of mercenaries, no matter how many imperialists they could count on, could make the history of our nation retrogress? ❋ Unknown (1966)
The world has seen the great civilization of the Western empire give place to the warring chaos of the baronial castles of the ninth and tenth centuries; it has seen the Eastern empire for 500 years decay and retrogress under the militarism of the Turk; it has watched the Red Indians, with rifles in their hands, grimly engage in mutual extermination. ❋ Various (N/A)
_ But it must be a slow, and occasionally an interrupted progress, after a sad retrogress of nearly twelve years. ' ❋ Horace B. Day (N/A)
Would I could retrogress over the devious and enchanting itinerary. ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)
The thought of their life history brings to mind how sadly they retrogress as they grow, hatching as minute free-swimming creatures like tiny lobsters, and gradually changing to this plant-like life, _sans_ eyes, ❋ William Beebe (1919)
Progress in bulk, complexity or activity involves retrogress in fertility; and progress in fertility involves retrogress in bulk, complexity, or activity. ❋ Various (1910)
A cool and observant spectator might have imagined that the broad timber carpet was changing a little its pattern, just as the earth near the windows of an arrested railroad train seems for a moment to retrogress. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
We don't stand still or retrogress; we keep going on and up. ❋ Harold MacGrath (1901)