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.
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  • 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.
  • The secular and the sacred have seldom existed as binaries in Indian thought, literature and practice; all essentialist constructions of the sacred and the secular are ahistorical.
  • Thus, the methodology of historical linguistics has been abused to support an ahistorical, if not positively antihistorical, model of a Great and Glorious Past. Languagehat.com: "PARADIGM SHIFTS" IN LINGUISTICS.
  • The literary establishment's incoherent critique combines snobbish disdain for popular culture with an ahistorical philistinism.
  • My reading of his work is that his analysis is somewhat static and ahistorical - though in other ways very astute.
  • Analytic philosophy is broadly ahistorical in outlook and finds no special place for the arts. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Everything in Ilija's work is unreal and ahistorical, fantastic and imaginative.
  • But the worst offense is a tone of cheerful, sanitized neutrality so overwhelming that it actually renders the prose ahistorical.
  • Business leaders' suspicions of uptalk are no reasoned commercial judgment; they're an ahistorical prejudice. Times, Sunday Times
  • Harris rejected such an ahistorical and artificially contrived formulation of African studies.
  • Colonial apologists have often used this ahistorical narrative to celebrate the advent of colonialism.
  • Specifically, Landy shows how folklore, however "natural" and ahistorical it may seem, is constituted through changing representations of the state, civil society, subjectivity, knowledge, and power.
  • That is one of the great nonsensical, ahistorical misconceptions.
  • Why the rap and the ahistorical, multi racial casting? Times, Sunday Times
  • Everything in Ilija's work is unreal and ahistorical, fantastic and imaginative.
  • Both of these notions are simplistic and ahistorical, and I'll try to argue that they're shortsighted.
  • As a classification, it is vague and ahistorical.
  • These ahistorical films are not necessarily bad films, merely bad history. Times, Sunday Times
  • Despite its context, this book is strangely ahistorical. The Times Literary Supplement
  • We see the contrast between historical fiction and ahistorical romance in some interesting authors who wrote both. Times, Sunday Times
  • And let's be honest, all that kung-fu fighting is pretty ahistorical.
  • Most significantly, an ahistorical, largely theoretical, emphasis on cultural difference remains limited.
  • First, equating activity at oral argument with participating ‘in the public life of the court’ is, well, quite odd and ahistorical.
  • But that would be both ahistorical and way too pat.
  • This, however, leads to an ahistorical view of the world, and could lead to poor diplomacy and bad policy.
  • If we ignore the context in which thinkers lived and worked, and proceed in a sort of ahistorical history of ideas fashion, we are never going to understand why.
  • It's collective guilt selectively applied, a concept of Original Sin limited to certain time-zones and complexions, and weirdly ahistorical.
  • The immediacy of violence and the reaction of artists were in some part ahistorical focusing instead on the universal and timeless viscerality.
  • Business leaders' suspicions of uptalk are no reasoned commercial judgment; they're an ahistorical prejudice. Times, Sunday Times
  • The attitude of the filmmakers toward history and society is ahistorical and subjective in the extreme.
  • Because it is atemporal and ahistorical, we cannot attribute change or transformation to it.
  • I totally repudiate all of my ignorant, racist, unfactual and ahistorical arguments above.
  • If Americans' ahistorical sense of their global decline prompts educators to come up with innovative new ideas, that's all to the good.
  • If the economy is a machine - something built by human beings - it seems to have become, somewhere along the line, an ahistorical machine.
  • And ironically, perhaps, the aspiration to write and think ahistorically has a certain historical periodicity. The Times Literary Supplement
  • It appears 'self-operating, self-defining, and ahistorical', though of course it is none of these things: 'Throughout the screened interiors of global financial activity, technological determinism and market determinism are mutually reinforcing.' 'Insomnia: A Cultural History'

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