The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition is by no means novel; it has long been one of the commonplaces of popular opinion.
I know what you wanted to say, Do you think that electrocution rewired your brain to make you the retard that you are? You can say it, lady.
Recently, I've discovered Radiohead and find them to be quite good. So clearly, I'm some kind of musical retard. (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American Gothic)
Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend
A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.
Maybe I'm a supernatural retard.
I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.
It's interesting, once I have convinced people that, yes, I have a sister with a mental disability, the retard jokes really dry up, so I'm not sure how much retard humor is really going on out there, but I imagine there's a lot because it's a pretty safe group to make fun of. It's not like the Retards of America are gonna rise up and organize a protest. They're not gonna write letters. They only just recently got the Supreme Court to stop executing them.
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
Yes, I play dress up! I do it for a living, like a retard!
I collect things that just look retarded.
Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare separated by irreconcilable differences. . . the enactment of animal welfare measures actually impedes the achievement of animal rights. . . Welfare reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which animal rights goals are achieved.
. . be smart, don't be a retard.
I'm not a social retard, but I prefer to go unnoticed.
I resent having to prove that I'm not a retard.
Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.
Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of. . . individualism, conquest and exploitation. . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.
Justin's fan are called Beliebers because it's politically incorrect to use the word retards.
Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life.
