throwback
retrocesso
definition
noun
the eyes could be an ancestral throwback
a reversion to an earlier ancestral characteristic.
translation of 'throwback'
noun
retrocesso
example
a lot of his work is a 'throwback' to the fifties
the eyes could be an ancestral 'throwback'
So is this new trend a 'throwback' to the 1980s and the heady fragrances which reeked of sex and were banned from select restaurants because they put people off their meals?
Compared to the other semi-finalists here, the Italians were criticised for representing a 'throwback' to a bygone, defensive mentality.
the eyes could be an ancestral 'throwback'
Warner is a 'throwback' to the quarterbacks of old.
The silver-haired Virginian with courtly manners is a 'throwback' to a forgotten era of congressional comity.
What if, instead, the attraction is an atavistic 'throwback' to the prehistoric human fascination with telling takes?
They're a 'throwback' to the cathedral towns of the Middle Ages - part resort, part market place, part town square and part extended family.
Rudin is a 'throwback' to an earlier era when apprenticeship loomed larger than academia in professional training.
He told Scotland on Sunday: ‘I think the Tories know they can portray him as a 'throwback' to Old Labour.’
He was a 'throwback' to the type of player Scotland used to produce and it was a pleasure to watch him play.
Ben is a genetic 'throwback' to Neanderthal man, shunned by family and society for his stupidity and ugliness.
Some say a new Florida law is a 'throwback' to the Wild West.
The new album is an evolution, not a 'throwback' , but it does contain references to every stage of U2's career.
Three-foot tall individuals do not mean an evolutionary 'throwback' .
Perhaps this is a 'throwback' to my kitchen days when the restaurant's French chef would share an after-work bottle of red with his hard-labouring team.
Last year the poet hit the headlines when he turned down the opportunity to be made an OBE, saying the award was a 'throwback' to the days of the defunct British Empire.
It's a quote that sounds like a 'throwback' to preintegration days.
Yes, he may be a 'throwback' to a former and, in many ways, best-forgotten age in which golf was populated mainly by right-wing reactionaries.
a lot of his work is a 'throwback' to the fifties
Aidan was a genetic 'throwback' , apparently, with pale skin and pale hair that was similar to that belonging to several of the family's relations.
The Persians who live in Los Angeles describe Meybodi as the Larry King of Iran, but he's more dignified than that, a 'throwback' to an earlier age of TV talk shows.
At first sound, the Beatles seemed a 'throwback' to the rockabilly 50s.
But with agricultural advances, shepherds are becoming an anachronism - a 'throwback' to a time long before the advent of the Honda quad bike.
This year has seen a number of films that feel like 'throwbacks' to the 70s, and I like that.
These atavistic hind legs are nothing less than 'throwbacks' to a totally pre-whale stage of their existence, some fifty million years ago.
As already mentioned, one of the possible 'throwbacks' to the past is our love of swimming.
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.
So why must all men look like atavistic 'throwbacks' ?
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