Sentences with phrase «anachronism from»

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?

A character in a sci - fi game could say a line that is considered an anachronism from the 21st century; a game full of realistic enemies could suddenly introduce monsters that don't fit the rest of the world.

In this article for Cuffelinks Roger discusses if value investing is relegated to history as an anachronism from a simpler and more innocent time.

The idea of «miles per gallon» on the other hand is becoming an anachronism from a former life to battery electric car owners, but still true is an environmentally oriented car choice is a series of trade - offs compared to convention internal combustion.

To attack the President of the country at a time when the USA needs to close ranks and stand together to consolidate the enormous strides his intelligent and respectful approach has achieved in building bridges, when her party's period in government bombed them, Sarah Palin comes across as a pitifully inadequate anachronism from the times of the Far West.

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This from a New York Times profile of Ann Landers: «She could be an anachronism, this great - grandmother with the teased blond hair and perfect nails giving advice to gay couples trying to adopt or teenagers packing condoms for the prom.

Why is it that what was once an important virtue has dropped from sight, «seen either as an anachronism or as a notion devised by oppressors to contain the restlessness and discontent of the oppressed»?

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.

Pitchers such as Brown, 24 - game winner John Smoltz of the Braves, 265 2/3 - inning workhorse Pat Hentgen of the Toronto Blue Jays and Randy Johnson of the Seattle Mariners, who has gone 55 - 16 since 1993 and appears recovered from back surgery performed last September, are anachronisms.

The maintenance and amendment of said Laws is the responsibility of IFAB, the International Football Association Board, which thanks to the enduring power of anachronism is made up half by representatives of FIFA, and half by representatives from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The legislation Senator Ball and I are putting forth seeks to modernize this anachronism in our state's animal cruelty laws and ensure we can better protect those who have no voice — our companion animals — from abuse and neglect,» said Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, the driving force behind passage of Buster's Law.

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.»

So, far from our union being an anachronism or in its death throes, we can be a beacon for the world,» he writes.

Some days I feel like a dinosaur, an anachronism left over from the days when people took pictures of their outfits in the mirror.

Its underlined, reiterated racial epithet may rescue Huck Finn from Mrs. Grundy, and 1858 anachronisms like modern potty - mouthing and dynamite are not what detract from what could have been a rousing tale if the two - and - three - quarter - hours did not blow itself up.

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.

There's an unhealthy anachronism to these characters, who riff with one another in modern day fashion, with at least one character giving his version of a Boston accent (though his portrayer, Stephen Graham (This is England, The I Inside), is from Liverpool, England).

The movie is set in 1960, but this is not really an anachronism because the Super Cub was produced from 1949 to 1994 with relatively few changes.

Expect plenty of anachronisms, less - than - convincing digital effects, and miscasting; Daniel Lee, a specialist in big - budget historical fantasies, directed from his own script.

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.

If GMC dealerships had made room for Hummer, it would have been easier to phase out when its brand perception went from war hero / tough guy «cool» to gas - guzzler anachronism.

In a land that lusts after efficient turbodiesels, the Ford, with its naturally aspirated, 435 - hp 5.0 - liter V - 8, is a decadent anachronism that's as folksy as a copy of Playboy from the mid -»60s.»

And as the crossover / utility vehicles and midsize sedans that the rest of the auto - consuming world prefers continue to evolve toward autonomy, a stick shift is the one major piece that's missing from the near - perfect modern automotive anachronism, the Alfa Romeo 4C.

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.

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Libraries are an anachronism of the past, from a time when books were too expensive for the average person to purchase.

With so many more books to choose from... than there ever were before, the function of gatekeepers, which trade publishers and booksellers clearly and proudly were, becomes an anachronism.

Paying financial advisors via commissions on transactions is widely considered to be an anachronism and there has been a slow, multi-decade movement away from it.

It's not hard to imagine a world where the Box Sale (and by extension, Gamestop's brick and mortar stores) are a curious anachronism as soon as 5 years from now.

Thus abstraction is not a move away from representation (or a complete anachronism), but one of several mechanisms by which we picture ourselves.

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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.

At the heart of the exhibition, an installation of five totem pole — like columns from the series «Achronies» (Anachronisms), 2017, evoked the Roman Forum.

Apart from presenting works of art and exploring the wide range of Iranian culture, the forthcoming show will also offer new scholarship and a novel approach to observing anachronisms in Iranian art.

Anachronism and Liberation presents nine artists, ranging from emerging to established, creating work that engages with social and / or political issues in subtle and surprising ways.

Through complex schemes, marked by several layers of symbolism, themes such as body image, sexuality, social turmoils and political convulsions are communicated in a vertiginous speed, forming a whirlwind of multiple anachronisms which combine autobiographical scenes from the artist's domestic life and public events belonging Brazilian history — both those stamped in the country's social imaginary as well as those programmatically neglected from it.

Viewed from within that clique, Harper's decision to avoid the Charter conference was a staggering admission of his crudeness and political anachronism.

Hereditary monarchies are an anachronism, useful for promoting tourism, or as a distraction from serious matters of state.

In the same vein, shows like Fresh off the Boat and Insecure are making the lives of minorities more mundane and mainstream, brushing off anachronisms like Long Duk Dong from Sixteen Candles and adding fresh, strong female relationships between black women.

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.