Both Uses of
retrograde
in
As I Lay Dying
- Motionless, the tall buzzards hang in soaring circles, the clouds giving them an illusion of retrograde.†
Chpt 21 *
- High against it they hand in narrowing circles, like the smoke, with an outward semblance of from and purpose, but with no inference of motion, progress or retrograde, We mount the wagon again where Cash lies on the box, the Jagged shards of cement cracked about his leg.†
Chpt 52
Definition:
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(retrograde) moving backward -- often to a less desirable condition