Sentences with phrase «age anachronism»

The repeating names may suggest a certain Gilded Age anachronism, but A.G. is considered a real heavyweight in the newsroom — a smart and humble editor who's also very astute about the difficult state of the news business.

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While the Eastern Churches, especially the Eastern wing of the Catholic Church, were losing ground to resurgent Islam, and only in Russia were the Orthodox winning their independence of the Moslem and advancing into new territory, Western Europe was moving into a new era in which Christianity appeared an anachronism, a hold - over from a vanishing age.

Martin Luther did not fully appreciate how much of an anachronism church was in his own age.

At this age and time, the NDP insists «our voters register is not only compromised but also outmoded when there has been a global switch from this anachronism to electronic voting machines (EVMs) with the only requirement of a single definitive voter identity», citing India which has since 1998 been switching to electronic voters machine and perfected it in its 2014 general elections with what they described as «highly unprecedented efficiency.»

What starts as a charming anachronism % u2014 pens, paper and the postal service in an impersonal digital age % u2014 becomes tedious as Hallstrom is reduced to interminable, repetitive montages covering the many months that the pair are apart.

The family has not always been popular and their problems have gone beyond the usual complaints about how much they cost and how much of anachronism monarchy seems in this day and age.

His men, anachronistically called «knights» (knights won't actually become a thing for another 500 years or so, after the Norman conquest; this is an example of an acceptable anachronism, especially since the Arthurian legends, composed in the age of chivalry, have already imposed knighthood on the historical story (if there was one, more about that later)-RRB- are Sarmatians, drafted into Imperial service as part of a 3rd Century surrender agreement between their people and the Empire (not historical: the Sarmatians remained a power in the Ukraine and Balkan regions through the end of the Western Empire, though there is a theory that the Arthurian legends are influenced by or even sourced in, similar Sarmatian stories (notably one about a lady with a sword in a lake), the influence purported to have come from a community of Sarmatian veterans in Lancashire).

In an age of carlike luxury utes, the Range Rover feels like a wonderful anachronism.

In an age of sport - utilities, sport sedans and pickups big enough to haul a family in comfort, the full - size rear - wheel - drive sedan, once ubiquitous, is an anachronism.

It may be an anachronism, a throwback to a bygone era when gas was cheap and consumers were in deeply in love with truck - based SUVs, but the aging Ford Expedition still has plenty to offer buyers in need of an eight - passenger «ute that can handle serious trailering duties.

Back in the present, St Oswald's is entering the age of technology and some of the old guard, especially anachronisms such as classics teachers, are hunkered down in their offices like soldiers in the trenches, defending themselves against the new guard who want to bring the school into the 21st century.

The campus bookstore, a seeming anachronism in the digital age, will soon become history at the University of Massachusetts.

On top of that, Sutro still uses durable scratch - resistant Italian glass for its non-prescription models, practically an anachronism in an age of polymers.

Sure, the graphics stay true to its Double Dragon II roots, but it also stays true to the original Nintendo - style gameplay and design which are anachronisms that have not aged well.

One thing is certain, the Vita is something of an exciting anachronism in this age of smartphones and throwaway gaming experiences.

The anachronism implies a continuity between the myths of hard - drinking artists from different eras: as if the beer - swilling painters of the Dutch Golden Age, the absinthe - addled wretches of 19th - century Paris, the tough guys of the New York School, liquored - up and rowdy at the Cedar Tavern, and several generations of British artists, stumbling out drunk in the late afternoon from Soho's Colony Room Club, could all be imagined in some timeless bar - room.

Malasauskas writes «Sculpture of The Space Age became an anachronism that keeps living on its own ambivalence as something that could have happened, then almost happened again.

In an age where the printed book may soon be an anachronism, artists remain fascinated by the subject and materials of the book.

Really, are these things an anachronism in this digital age?

In the clash between law as a profession and law as business, does the death of Heenan Blaikie show that the idea of law as a profession is simply an anachronism from an age long past?