Sentences with phrase «about anachronism»

The givenness of the barrier between time now and time then yields for us banalities about anachronism, on the one side, and imposes upon us the requirement of mediating between historical fact and religious truth, on the other.

Not exact matches

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.

There is a notion in the air about us that religion is probably only an anachronism, a case of «survival,» an atavistic relapse into a mode of thought which humanity in its more enlightened examples has outgrown; and this notion our religious anthropologists at present do little to counteract.

Despite media arguments about the theoretical importance of parliamentarydebates, the print press has cut back on its coverage, including parliamentary sketchwriting, which is in the words of Mathew Parris, the former Tory MP and Times sketchwriter, something of an anachronism.

Like several other words of political invective, their imprecise use stands as a substitute for thinking about the situation at hand, They are also anachronisms.

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.

But there's also something interesting about the movie's deliberate musical anachronisms, which operate as kind of a crude unifying theory of poptimism, depicting everything from opera to circus sideshows as polished, MOR crossover hits, all millennial whoops, generically walloping beats, and self - actualization.

Other than that glaring anachronism, I have no complaints about Wrath of the Titans, a 3D sequel which is a rarity in that actually eclipses the original in quality.

«That, combined with the fact that he was an anachronism living the 1940s and that he was then old and looking back on his life trying to solve this mystery, it all felt to me when I was reading the script like this character that we've seen so many facets of was revealing new things about himself.»

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).

Otherwise, McBride and Best work in often profane anachronisms, so that when Thadeous is about to drop from the dwarf gallows, he lets out a curse.

While there was strong bipartisan support, NCLB was tempered as always by the conflicting political forces of interested parties, including the one anachronism about teacher quality that was based on inputs rather than outputs.

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.

At this point, Bungie / 343's response is essentially «it's a game, stop freaking out about small anachronisms and gameplay inconsistencies across games»

In an art world where there is a lot of chatter about galleries and studios opening further and further east — in Chinatown, the Lower East Side, and across the river into Brooklyn's Bushwick and Greenpoint — Sugimoto's Chelsea studio is something of an anachronism.

In doing so, what may have once been spiritual about the Church has now become a dead - end victim of activating past anachronisms upon a present future.

We will perhaps consider this repeated attempt to moralise and value Camp as Good / Bad, Normative / Queer, Intentional / Naive (and many other failed attempts to draw distinctions) but also talk about pleasure and delight in the seriousness that misses its mark, the gesture which does too much and the anachronism which skews tastefulness.

I have participated in the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) for about 13 years, and have aspired to having a gypsy persona.

I've crossed my share of streets hand - in - hand with little old ladies and vacated countless seats on sardine - stuffed subway cars but something about watching counsel be called in order of their year of call smacks of anachronism and inefficiency.

In a world that seems to care less and less about beautiful hardware and more about services that help you from afar, over the air, without your ever having to touch a machine, Apple risks becoming an anachronism.