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- adjective Resembling an
outdated vision of thefuture .
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Examples
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A slightly bloody Mickey Rourke with a retrofuturistic telephone and a cockatoo on his shoulder.
Iron Man 2: Three New Photos Including Whiplash and his Cockatoo | /Film 2010
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Things got retrofuturistic when Goldfrapp performed at 9: 30 club on Monday.
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Boing Boing has a link to a nice retrofuturistic graphic of the “skyscraper airport of tomorrow” from 1939.
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Hence the new 45-minute format and the new in-universe aesthetics: under various pretexts, the new series "modernized" such dated ( "retrofuturistic") elements as the
Planet Ubuntu 2010
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Hence the new 45-minute format and the new in-universe aesthetics: under various pretexts, the new series "modernized" such dated ( "retrofuturistic") elements as the
Planet Ubuntu 2010
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Gizmodo called it the "worst, pseudo-pornographic, retrofuturistic marketing dollars can buy."
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Gizmodo called it the "worst, pseudo-pornographic, retrofuturistic marketing dollars can buy."
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Gizmodo called it the "worst, pseudo-pornographic, retrofuturistic marketing dollars can buy."
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Besides, its crashed-airplane looks contrast radically with current car design, and it ends up not looking very futuristic at all, but instead retrofuturistic, like how "future" cars were imagined back in the '50s.
Fast Company 2009
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REMINDER: Hyundai Genesis Coupe press intro live streaming webcast at 11am EDT Mercedes-Benz unveils retrofuturistic F-Cell Roadster built by trainees Mercedes-Benz unveils retrofuturistic F-Cell Roadster built by trainees Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: PEP, AXP, RTP, WSM, RIMM, HPQ ...
Autoblog 2009
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