How To Use Ahistorical In A Sentence
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A stirring vision - but also a profoundly ahistorical one.
The Times Literary Supplement
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What ahistorical bilge and what classic narcissism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Descriptions about religions throughout the book are invariably ahistorical, fail to inculcate any rational enquiry and singularly ignore the time and space contexts.
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Such ahistorical preconceptions suggest that the only good work being done is work that is completely new.
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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.
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The film is intermittently nonhistorical, but not ahistorical: it is historically grounded, but sometimes disaligned from historical narratives.
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It is an easy argument to make from a comfortable armchair in the home counties, but it is ahistorical.
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This is a profoundly ahistorical proposition.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The literary establishment's incoherent critique combines snobbish disdain for popular culture with an ahistorical philistinism.
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My reading of his work is that his analysis is somewhat static and ahistorical - though in other ways very astute.
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Analytic philosophy is broadly ahistorical in outlook and finds no special place for the arts.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Everything in Ilija's work is unreal and ahistorical, fantastic and imaginative.
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But the worst offense is a tone of cheerful, sanitized neutrality so overwhelming that it actually renders the prose ahistorical.
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Business leaders' suspicions of uptalk are no reasoned commercial judgment; they're an ahistorical prejudice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Harris rejected such an ahistorical and artificially contrived formulation of African studies.
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Colonial apologists have often used this ahistorical narrative to celebrate the advent of colonialism.
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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.
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That is one of the great nonsensical, ahistorical misconceptions.
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Why the rap and the ahistorical, multi racial casting?
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Everything in Ilija's work is unreal and ahistorical, fantastic and imaginative.
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Both of these notions are simplistic and ahistorical, and I'll try to argue that they're shortsighted.
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As a classification, it is vague and ahistorical.
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These ahistorical films are not necessarily bad films, merely bad history.
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Despite its context, this book is strangely ahistorical.
The Times Literary Supplement
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We see the contrast between historical fiction and ahistorical romance in some interesting authors who wrote both.
Times, Sunday Times
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And let's be honest, all that kung-fu fighting is pretty ahistorical.
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Most significantly, an ahistorical, largely theoretical, emphasis on cultural difference remains limited.
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First, equating activity at oral argument with participating ‘in the public life of the court’ is, well, quite odd and ahistorical.
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But that would be both ahistorical and way too pat.
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This, however, leads to an ahistorical view of the world, and could lead to poor diplomacy and bad policy.
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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.
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It's collective guilt selectively applied, a concept of Original Sin limited to certain time-zones and complexions, and weirdly ahistorical.
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The immediacy of violence and the reaction of artists were in some part ahistorical focusing instead on the universal and timeless viscerality.
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Business leaders' suspicions of uptalk are no reasoned commercial judgment; they're an ahistorical prejudice.
Times, Sunday Times
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The attitude of the filmmakers toward history and society is ahistorical and subjective in the extreme.
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Because it is atemporal and ahistorical, we cannot attribute change or transformation to it.
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I totally repudiate all of my ignorant, racist, unfactual and ahistorical arguments above.
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If Americans' ahistorical sense of their global decline prompts educators to come up with innovative new ideas, that's all to the good.
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If the economy is a machine - something built by human beings - it seems to have become, somewhere along the line, an ahistorical machine.
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And ironically, perhaps, the aspiration to write and think ahistorically has a certain historical periodicity.
The Times Literary Supplement
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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'
