Sentences with phrase «first anachronism»
Two wistful young men making enigmatic hand gestures, awkwardly recline by a campfire in Adrian Wiszniewski's idiosyncratic painting The First Anachronism of the Day.
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Canwest's Sunday papers are survived by a few remaining Sunday editions across Canada — most notably the Sunday Star — but the 24 - hour news cycle will undoubtedly continue to force the number down, as sitting with the Sunday paper becomes more of an anachronism, in a country that never fully embraced the idea of a Sunday paper in the first place.
Yes, the text of the First Amendment refers specifically to religion, they concede, but that's an anachronism.
Quite understandably, audiences were mystified by the appearance of helicopters and limos in 1850s Nicaragua, for two reasons: (1) Cox did not weave such anachronisms consistently through the first half of the film, and (2) he imbued the film with a solemn tone that could not accommodate such surprises.
However, the first - generation model was hampered by anachronisms like an early version of the MMI infotainment system that utilized a relatively clunky dashboard - mounted control knob.
First of all, as Susanne Alleyn points out in her clever and very readable book, Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders: A Writer's (and Editor's) Guide to Keeping Historical Fiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors, and Myth, an author of historical fiction needs to recognize that the city of today can be vastly different from the city of whatever time period you are writing about, and this is true even when you are talking about a relatively young city like San Francisco and a time period that is only 132 years in the past.
Advertised as «the first indie game in the world based on» the William Shakespeare play, Hamlet re-tells the centuries - old tragedy with pastel vector visuals, various anachronisms (e.g. electric guitars) logic puzzles, and boss fights.
I spent tons of time in the first Mario Kart trying to jump over all the barriers and go cruising GTA style (anachronism) across the landscape.