Sentences with phrase «anachronism in»

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

As the artist explained, «if my Abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still - lives show my yearning... though these pictures are motivated by the dream of classical order and a pristine world - by nostalgia in other words — the anachronism in them takes on a subversive and contemporary quality» (G. Richter, quoted in A. Zweite (ed.)

Gaillard echoes this anachronism in the artwork's material itself Artefacts (2011) was shot on the artist's iPhone, and the resulting digital video was transferred to an older 35 mm format, in which the work is exhibited as a continuous loop.

As Richter explained, «landscapes... show my yearning... But though these pictures are motivated by the dream of classical Order and a pristine world — by nostalgia, in other words — the anachronism in them takes on a subversive and contemporary quality» (Gerhard Richter, «Notes 1981», The Daily Practice of Painting, London, 1995, p. 98).

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

The E3 demo revealed what appeared to be quite a central storyline, so spoiler - averse readers may wish to space out to some Creedence Clearwater Revival and Janis Joplin records instead (both artists featured prominently in the demo video; Twitter commentators have pointed out an anachronism in 2K's musical choices, though).

If you have Netflix, late fees for movie rentals are an anachronism in your life.

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.

This makes them an anachronism in an era where newspapers, phonebooks and pretty much any disposable printed media seem inconvenient at best, and environmentally irresponsible at worst.

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

The clunky flyaway handbrake by the driver's door feels like an anachronism in the current era of electric parking brakes, while the steering column could do with more adjustability.

Notably, «Civil War» doesn't play Captain America for laughs or treat him as a genial anachronism in the way that the earlier films did; its most crucial flashback to the guy's pre-coma existence (which occasions a brief, impressive turn by Emily VanCamp) exists mainly so that we can hear his inner determination put into words: «Compromise where you can.

Johansson meanwhile is an anachronism in the film: She is an impossible sell for a reason having nothing to do with physical beauty or acting chops — she's completely and simply at long last out of her element.

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.

Fiber glass boatbuilders across the nation are turning out a tough breed of graceful, seagoing hulls which may soon make the wooden boat an anachronism in marine construction

Brown was considered an anachronism in some quarters, a man whose irascible in - your - face style had gone out of fashion 20 years ago... and was hard to take even then.

The pennant - chasing White Sox are an anachronism in this era of power batting.

It has been suggested that this anachronism in the biblical text is akin to importing semitrailers into the medieval period.

6) «It is often asserted that the mention of camels and of their use is an anachronism in Genesis.

Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps says «smartwatches are sci - fi inventions that are already anachronisms in this modern world,» while Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi says the Gear is «more an overpriced toy than a device that really drives value to consumers.»

There may be apparent anachronisms in certain aspects of the Book of Mormon, but the same could also be said of any book of scripture and many old science books as well.

There are plenty of anachronisms in the movie's humor, but the most consistent is Albert himself, whose acknowledgement of how awful things are also suggests that he's aware it will get much better in the future.

When we think of craft, we tend to think of expensive handmade objects, often considered anachronisms in a world of mass production and mass consumption.

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.

Her practice as an exhibition - maker in and outside Lebanon tackles various themes including narrative and non-narrative practices in the MENA region, the moving image, anachronisms in image making, the white cube ideology of the gallery space while always critically rethinking the exhibition format through the methods she employs and the scenography.

How else can one explain the kind of strange anachronisms in the exhibit?

Not exact matches

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.

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.

@freethinker... religion may be an anachronism for you, but it isn't for many... certainly not for the mother who a child in the Ohio shooting, but who's faith helps her deal with her... I don't care what people worship... communism, football, buddhism, witchcraft, amish, catholic... I would never be arrogant enough to tell somebody else what to believe... but we all can't be as self righteous as you.

Rebels are bound to that against which they rebel, and were we to rebel against the modern we would find in our anachronisms no positive past, but only a negated present.

Although he often expressed this vision obliquely, he was relentless in his criticism of those who despised faith as an anachronism: «I am not afraid to say that a devout and God - fearing man is superior as a human specimen to a restless mocker who is glad to style himself an «intellectual,» proud of his cleverness in using ideas which he claims as his own though he acquired them in a pawnshop in exchange for simplicity of heart....

That interpretation is an anachronism; the passage really represents tribal justice, in accordance with which the sin of one involves in guilt and penalty the entire kinship - group to which the wrongdoer belongs.

Beyond the power of anachronisms to conceal, this word moves through the Bible correctly representing in its altering significance the progress of the Hebrew - Christian idea of God and of the basic conditions of approaching him.

A community shaped by the biblical narrative and steeped in classical theology can easily become a gentle anachronism, rather like the clubs that get together to hold costumed jousting tournaments.

And this is only to illustrate the relatively common occurrence of incongruity, anachronism, exaggeration and discrepancy in the patriarchal stories.

If the South is open to the charge (in a James Sellers phrase) of having squandered most of its psychic energy on the anachronism of segregation (and slavery before that), the North may be accused of having misdirected many of its attitudes toward the benightedness and inferiority of southerners and southern ways.

If we're reading Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, on the other hand, we soon recognize that Twain is having all sorts of fun with deliberate anachronisms, and we don't expect any sort of historical accuracy.

It is regrettable that they should be marred by the recurrent slippage in poetic diction, the indulgence in heightening paraphrase in the guise of translation, and the instances of tendentiousness and anachronism.

In that history of the liberal mind Jonathan Edwards is described as the great «anachronism.»

The authorization of photocopies in 1904 seems to be an anachronism, unless the author meant that they took pictures of the pages of the book and developed them.

Scripture has many authors, it makes use of many sources, and it is written — if we may be excused an unhelpful anachronism — in various genres.

Does it not mean that with the change in our world view the Bible itself has become an anachronism?

The concept of «orthoselection» stresses organic - environment interaction of sufficient duration to reveal trends which follow environmental shifts — a neo-Darwinian blending of the Darwinian and Lamarcking approaches which obviates the need for the historical anachronism of «orthogenesis,» which is still of interest only to «literary intellectuals and religious philosophers» intent on discerning the working of higher purposes in the evolutionary process.

To confess interest in «process philosophy» as a viable vocation (over and against the mere historical study of a certain tradition) is to seem to associate oneself with a tradition thoroughly discredited in the eyes of its more analytically - inclined critics as little more than an historical anachronism — a throwback to the worst examples of unrestrained 19th - century speculative nonsense.10

He appears lost in the pe - enlightenment world and an anachronism.

Baseball, that pleasant anachronism we play in the dog days when we have time to catch our breath and dream of the dusty past, was once our game.

That humans still believe in something mystical is an anachronism, these prophets believe — one that will fade as we turn these new discoveries into technologies.

Even if some professors today do have pretensions to omniscience, the explosion in the quantity of information to be imparted makes them as well as Dr. Whewell — and Faust too, for that matter — amusing anachronisms.

Substantial truth may lie in the Scripture's verbal anachronism which represents Yahweh as saying: «I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.»

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.