ahistorical

How To Use ahistorical In A Sentence

• A stirring vision - but also a profoundly ahistorical one. The Times Literary Supplement
• What ahistorical bilge and what classic narcissism. Times, Sunday Times
• Descriptions about religions throughout the book are invariably ahistorical, fail to inculcate any rational enquiry and singularly ignore the time and space contexts.
• Such ahistorical preconceptions suggest that the only good work being done is work that is completely new.
• But there are others outside modernity who live with selves that originate and are grounded in ahistorical modes of constructing the past - in legends, myth and epic.
• As a Marxist, I try desperately not to fall into the ‘conspiracy’ trap; history is made by massive social forces, not by plotting schemers or ahistorical supermen.
• The film is intermittently nonhistorical, but not ahistorical: it is historically grounded, but sometimes disaligned from historical narratives.
• It is an easy argument to make from a comfortable armchair in the home counties, but it is ahistorical. Times, Sunday Times
• This is a profoundly ahistorical proposition.
• Admittedly, I am an historian, so that makes me extremely unsympathetic to the sorts of loose and ahistorical generalizations to which sociologists are greatly inclined.