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Since that's the point, the foot retreats from the visual game, and the enveloping shoe leads its own bright life.
During one of history’s greatest strategic retreats, one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), was chosen as party leader.
Burton, on the ropes after a particularly tough Tony Snow ( Fox News Sunday ) question, retreats with the most transparent wiggle of the weekend.
Very few artists have played with the power of isoluminance to achieve this role in form processing: Lichtenstein seems to have been on to this property a decade earlier than Gregory, although he soon retreats back to the boldness of his cartoon pop-art style to explore a potpourri of the icons of classic sources.
… [H]e retreats behind religious platitudes, empty sloganeering and half-truths."