How To Use Anachronistic In A Sentence

But emigration to the United States had made this restriction anachronistic and so the Liberal government altered the law.
The orchestra itself (ten violins, three violas, etc.) is of a healthy (but not anachronistic) size - another plus to this recording.
Modern dress also looks anachronistic in a world where respectability is a prime virtue and cuckoldry a social stigma.
What is more, the Internet, as a form of a material culture, has worked to render other dualisms, especially that of production and consumption, ‘anachronistic’.
To be sure what we are anachronistically discerning as a scene of psychoanalysis is part of the process by which Being 'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)

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A while ago I learned to engrave copper, and I enjoyed doing it so much I was also pleased with myself for having acquired an anachronistic and highly specialized skill that I engraved every hard surface I could find. Brian D. Cohen: Things
When these conflicts reach a crisis point, existing dominant groups always fight to maintain the anachronistic form of social organization.
At the same time, he vowed that his government would continue to push for the lifting of what he called the "anachronistic" and "discriminatory" arms embargo against China. Daimnation!: The most amoral democracy on earth
Peter Fitzpatrick's concept, physicalising the anachronistic contrast in each character's ‘journey’ in a curve around the room, kept the audience engaged and involved in the complexities of the text.
Boyishly reared by an emancipated mother and a suicidal father, she is the victim of heredity, environment and her own anachronistic position as an outsider in the new socialist England.
Slow scene changes, line fluffs and anachronistic props appear occasionally.
(AT 84) Instead of merely being quaint and anachronistic technologies harnessed to an anodyne future, we can re-conceptualise and re-pathologise space vehicles. Ballardian » Better Living through Psychopathology
As for the contempt laws, in an internet age, they look increasingly anachronistic. Times, Sunday Times
Life in the tumbledown bathhouse seems hopelessly anachronistic.
But even our ‘modernising’ government now seems to be succumbing to this anachronistic codswallop.
Multiple currencies are as sensible as different rail gauges and different power sockets - they are an anachronistic inconvenience and costly.
But much of it also went into the unbridled and anachronistic opulence of the royal family and the main tribal chiefs.
We might argue, albeit anachronistically, that best commercial practice could also have been adopted in accounting for the bridge.
This time around – and I think we're on the 22nd remake now – they've steampunked it, gussying it up with much retro-futuristic silliness and cheap-looking CGI, anachronistic weaponry and ordnance, by-the-numbers action-heroics, and a sky teeming with armadas of heavily armoured hot-air balloons reminiscent of Zeppelins. This steampunk take on The Three Musketeers doesn't buckle my swash
It's also a way of feeling less anachronistic, which is why a lot of fiction writers are into Twitter. Gothamist
Oxfam calls farmworker conditions today the equivalent of a "19th century plantation-style" model relying on field hands, rudimentary equipment, long hours, little pay, no benefits, under a basically "inhumane, anachronistic (system crying) out for reform. Modern Slavery in America
These are the sort of thoughts my grandfather might have had fifty years ago, and he was something of an anachronistic fuddy-duddy even then.
Year upon year critics predict couture's demise, calling anachronistic an art form that generates little or no money in a profit-driven industry. The Seattle Times
The overall result is an upper chamber modernised with Twitter and iPads but which feels increasingly anachronistic and feudal. Times, Sunday Times
Elaine was now chatting happily with Francis, and Bernice had learnt more about the strangely anachronistic civilization of Arcadia.
Islamic law is as anachronistic as Hammurabi's code - yet it IS applicable and applied in many countries.
Would these not be examples of anachronistic characters but parachronistic. Question: What Are Your Favorite Movies Featuring Anachronistic Characters? | /Film
We might argue, albeit anachronistically, that best commercial practice could also have been adopted in accounting for the bridge.
She is single-minded and tone-deaf and occasionally resorts to anachronistic yoof-speak ('awks' for 'awkward'). The Times Literary Supplement
The charm of these films relies not solely on the thrill of magic, but also on the appeal of the archaic and anachronistic.
There are a couple of callbacks to old movies, but not the kind of motormouth anachronistic humor you might expect from a DW movie .. The tech behind ‘Madagascar’
Any justification very likely can appear or be made to appear judgmental, discriminatory, unfairly harsh, insubstantial or even anachronistic.
To many minds, we live in a post-feminist era when denouncing sexist strictures is anachronistic.
Almost any newly translated French or Italian philosopher becomes fashionable, regardless of whether appropriate or not, and is hailed with a fetishistic fusillade of anachronistic footnotes.
Of course, some passages are obscure or anachronistic. But many of the sayings attributed to Confucius breathe a remarkably fresh secular humanism.
Ultimately Black Mamba Serums strikes the listener as oddly anachronistic, but in a good way.
That, and "Dahomey", gives it a really hilarious anachronistic feel. Video map: Yakko's world!
That his places are unpeopled, in today's arena of politicized landscape photography, is in itself anachronistic, however abrupt the photographs.
In March she was assigned to Ellington Field, Texas (the book's headers and index anachronistically refer to it as Ellington Air Force Base).
Do Britons not see tipping as an anachronistic relic of a deferential society? Times, Sunday Times
Around the edges of the room, behind the forest of illusory ferns and gingkoes and cycads, other extinct species lurked, here a hyaenodon with its vicious teeth; there a massetognathus like a big, skinny rat; watching it carefully, a dog-like direwolf; all part of an anachronistic conglomeration, a fantastical celebration of the weird and wild things the need to survive had come up with over the eons. THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE by Ruth Nestvold | Fiction | Futurismic
But it's also one of his characteristics, to lace his narrative with anachronistic linguistic style—what the Guardian described as 'marrying geekspeak with riotous action'.
In an increasingly secular society the religious aspects of monarchy may seem anachronistic. Times, Sunday Times
In a multi-racial, multi-cultural society such as our own it seems anachronistic and discriminatory to make value judgments about rhythmic (or arhythmic) movements. Serendip's Exchange -
Even the engagement was an act of fierce rebellion and shunning of anachronistic traditions.
Apart from a goatee beard and anachronistic blow-dried bouffant, he looks the same as ever, even after a 17-year absence.
First of all the definitions of these terms are anachronistic; they entail the retrojecting of many post-Enlightenment concerns into antiquity.
In the good old days or were they the bad ones? the twice yearly dishing out of gongs with exotic, anachronistic names was colourful, class-ridden and decidedly rackety, like much else in post-imperial British public life. New Year honours' dishonourable past | Michael White
It seems no less anachronistic for us to have a home-grown hereditary figurehead. Times, Sunday Times
Today, his approach seems pleasingly anachronistic. The Times Literary Supplement
The high concept involves two young black men donning blackface minstrel makeup, reciting various bits of anachronistic shtick, parodying cruel racial stereotypes of yesteryear.
OTOH it does not mean that old arguments against the Trinity or other affirmations made by our forebears should be dismissed now for being "anachronistic" or "obsolete". Philocrites: Isaac Newton's anti-Trinitarianism in the news.
The mention of ‘kilos’ is not only anachronistic but contrary to the translator's professed policy.
Utterly naïve and anachronistic it may be, but it's no less prepossessing and pretty for that.
let's look at this phenomenon anachronistically
His use of the unclassical and perhaps anachronistic word "huckster" shows us both what he takes from and brings to Kabir's poetry, which is to allow his own poetic mind to take off from the basic message and conceptual frame of Kabir's Hindi lines, without hankering after a word-for-word fidelity. When Mysticism Came Down to Earth
Not only has he caught at least four careless errors and picked up a bunch of anachronistic words, he also figured out that the words "soul-less" and "soulless" used on the same page were spelled differently for a reason, and stetted them both. When you look up at the sky all you see are zeros, all you see are zeros and ones
Most of the anachronistic blights on the conscience of humanity like bear baiting, cock fighting, dog fighting have long been illegal.
In "Love in a Bottle" the magician Klingsor cures Sir Lancelot of his love for Queen Guinevere, with unexpected – or, rather, expected – results the tone of jokily anachronistic Arthurianism, incidentally, anticipates TH White's The Once and Future King by some years. Love in a Bottle by Antal Szerb – review
A painting exhibition titled "Gradation" and the obscurely organized "Points of View" are less inspiring, and the delicate, thoughtful, though somewhat anachronistic works in the Cuban exhibition "Serendipity" was gobbled up by the sensory overload of its neighboring exhibitions, especially the roaring techno music spewing over from next door's addendum to "California Dreamin '," a coma-inducing cavernous video room that could enwrap a viewer for hours. Marina Cashdan: The Promised Land? Will Portugal Arte 10 Become a Fixture on the Art World Calendar?
Which brings me to my final critique: you misspelled "anachronistic" in your last paragraph. The Ugly Truth About Tokio Hotel: Vanity Fair
But it also avoids the half remembered, anachronistic memory of the juror in the jury room.
Please forgive the poster's anachronistic font and the inaccurate but fairly hilarious use of the "Kings & Queens of England Playing Cards" for some images of Æthelred, Canute, Edward, and Harthacanute. Archive 2007-04-01
This claim is anachronistic in that it presupposes Aristotle's own novel view that a complete explanation must encompass four factors: what he called the formal, material, efficient, and final causes. Presocratic Philosophy
Now it is abruptly condemned as morally indefensible and politically anachronistic. Times, Sunday Times
If I was writing a story set in ancient Rome, and I used anachronistic terms like "jailbait" or "jury-rigged", I'd get roasted for being sloppy, and rightly so. Giffen on Continuity | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
He saw no need to write a poetry out of anachronistic myths, inkhorn lingos, and prissy poetic forms.
Between the intermittent razor-sharp lines, he lumbers his cast with some creaky, faintly anachronistic hipster jive dialogue.
Of course, America's critics regard the country's obsession with sovereignty and self-government as anachronistic and pathological.
No expense is spared in an elaborate opening cancan number that makes an anachronistic use of today's popular music.
And that's the kind of anachronistic rule that ought to be ... CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2009
It's kind of anachronistic to spend so much time on something that's just going to be thrown out there with everything else that's out there, but it means you can't really be results-orientated. Guster Breaks Down the Creative Process
The Peppermints specialize in a deliberately amateurish, almost quaintly anachronistic form of self-described "barfy" DIY punk.
They look anachronistic, like the Amish: the men in short-sleeved shirts with no ties, the women and girls with long, uncut hair down their backs, headscarves tied at the back of their necks. ‘We were strange, we were shunned, but there’s little I would change’
The idea of sitting amid fine silverware while discussing philosophy may seem anachronistic now but across the Channel, they think differently. Times, Sunday Times
Since then thousands of youngsters have learned good manners, decent behaviour and mutual respect, all through the seemingly anachronistic art of ballroom dancing.
The increasingly anachronistic tax exemption given to interest payments means that many companies borrow as a matter of course. Times, Sunday Times
But emigration to the United States had made this restriction anachronistic and so the Liberal government altered the law.
Elaine was now chatting happily with Francis, and Bernice had learnt more about the strangely anachronistic civilization of Arcadia.
The system is looking pretty anachronistic. Times, Sunday Times
Not only are the terms "donor" and "recipient" anachronistic, but even the word "aid" itself needs to be shelved – all countries benefit from development co-operation, so a word implying charity is misleading. The OECD should give up control of the aid agenda | Jonathan Glennie
Even with users pioneering a common-sense approach, some vendors are still pushing anachronistic solutions.
What is worse is that most of these suggestions are, at best modest, and often unambitious - even those that significantly modify the Senate, since it is considered by many to be anachronistic, marginal and even expendable.
To many minds, we live in a post-feminist era when denouncing sexist strictures is anachronistic.
But as a whole, this anachronistic, backward-looking, visibly old-fashioned party needs a fundamental renewal before it is fit to govern again.
They smack of totalitarian despotism, and their quaint claim for absolute certainty seems anachronistic in this postmodern age of relativism and deconstruction.
Given the promise of instantaneous diffusion we can move to a system of exchanging intellectual work for money, instead of parcelling it into discrete copies whose price is protected by an anachronistic monopoly. P2P: Saving the world
English public schools are anachronistic
Instead of "anachronistic" groupings like the G-77 plus China, the world should look toward new blocs which recognize the future peril of climate change. Nikolas Kozloff: Cancún Climate Summit: Time for a New Geopolitical Architecture
But it looks increasingly anachronistic that such figures should have notional involvement in issues of press freedom. Times, Sunday Times
Now it is abruptly condemned as morally indefensible and politically anachronistic. Times, Sunday Times
For, though they can hardly be called blemishes, they are certainly not the great beauties of his work; or, at least, if they are, their anachronistic charm cannot be emphasised unless the play is accurately mounted according to its proper date. Intentions
Beyond the Washington-Boston corridor, trains account for 0.5% of all intercity trips, meaning that in most parts of the country Amtrak is an inconsequential and anachronistic mode of intercity travel. Amtrak's Banner Year
There wasn't a dry eye on the terrace-until somebody's mobile phone went off, anachronistically.
Theirs is an increasingly anachronistic way of life and one that has all but disappeared in England. Times, Sunday Times
The notion of top-flight sides enticing contracted performers began to appear anachronistic.
It's a very anachronistic thing, but Japanese emperors weren't called Teno, Son of Heaven, through long stretches of history. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Harris wishes to convict religious belief of mulish literalism, while attacking its tenets in the most bluntly prosaic and anachronistic terms he can muster.
The Reformation settlement that established particular versions of Christianity as official religions in Britain has largely worn out, except for a few anachronistic survivals.
Last time I watched, there was some blonde buffoon on Question Time, burbling in an anachronistic fashion about something or the other.
Obvious differences do persist, particularly in accent and intonation, but the idea of the thick-accented, barely intelligible Paddy is anachronistic.
They were emotionally troubled, or socially maladjusted, or marginal in some more or less unattractive way, or quaintly anachronistic.
Trying to use them today seems anachronistic. Christianity Today
One that already sounds anachronistic is Cleggmania, alongside its cousin its cousin, Cleggstasy, both of which only seem to be referred to in the past tense in common parlance these days. Simples! Aleksandr the Meerkat gives the dictionary his word
In an increasingly secular society the religious aspects of monarchy may seem anachronistic. Times, Sunday Times
The brusque style of Washington has managed to antagonize its best friends by means of anachronistic ukases and its treatment of allies as unruly children.
His play on the word bunyip, with its overtones of anachronistic absurdity, reflected the refusal by Australians to institutionalise an upper class.
Some worry that after 96 years its members have become disengaged, its methods anachronistic relics of 1960s protest.
The expansion of Anglo-Norman lords in Ireland took place through alliances with Irishmen whom it is anachronistic to label renegades or traitors.
Fortunately, this course of events was averted by a yet another "anachronistic" operation - the Navy-Marine Corps amphibious assault at Inchon. THE NEWS BLOG
The cast of characters includes a nebbishy analyst, a touch so quaintly anachronistic as to make you wonder where Mr. Allen has been for the past quarter-century. You Hear the One About the Hunchback?
This seems absurdly anachronistic - clearly the kind of romantic ideal born of his youth and his time and his place. Times, Sunday Times
Yet one still finds anachronistic and peculiar accounts of "Gnosticism" by Eric Voegelin and his followers that routinely claim "gnosis" as the origin of modern totalitarianism.
She wears anachronistic styles as though they were the latest fashion, with no hint of nostalgia.
At one time, the bulk of deliveries to the market was made by boats, but they have ben supplanted by trucks, and it is now the truckmen who are the tough salty characters while the fishermen become anachronistic shadows. Fulton Fish Market
We might argue, albeit anachronistically, that best commercial practice could also have been adopted in accounting for the bridge.
Against it are patches of anachronistic dialogue. Times, Sunday Times
Throwing off her ear-rings and slouching in her chair, she begins her soliloquy with a moment of anachronistic genius and continues to define the character for a modern sensibility.
It seemed anachronistic, out of touch with the mainstream (I actually had to look up "canticle" to see what it meant). Canticle -- By Any Other Name...
Only in its veneration of the writer does it feel anachronistic. Times, Sunday Times
The Army is afraid to embrace the close fight publicly, because to do so seems anachronistic, politically incorrect and illogical.
The rolling cymbals near the beginning of the composition seem more anachronistic than anything else.
His painting style was seen as outdated and anachronistic.
Excluding others from access to incorporeal intellectual works was impossible and therefore the legal system, including copyright law, seemed anachronistic.

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