Sentences with phrase «anachronism on»

Retro visuals are set against a game containing a non-linear mission structure, an upgradeable character and weapons, and active reloads; Mercenary Kings becomes a sort of gaming anachronism on the PS4 due to its mixture of tried - and - true with modern and new.

The manual may be down two cogs, but it would have been an engaging anachronism on this drive.

For all of their noble statistics (9,167 hits among them), Rose, Perez and Concepcion have become little more than distinguished anachronisms on this team.

These things are anachronisms on an aero - styled car.

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I'm fond of saying,» We have a choice... theological history or historical theology»... and becuz I lean toward the latter, biblical anachronisms (belonging to another time) aren't on my wish list.

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.

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.

If nothing else, Wright's work will force us to deal with the problems of anachronism and truncated interpretations of Jesus that lead to such horrible aberrations as anti-Semitism on the one hand and an all - too - modern non-Jewish Jesus on the other.

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.

The greatest anachronism, on a natural level, was to be found in the Catholic Church.

I venture to say that demonstrations contra and Vietnam war or pro Maoism are an absolute anachronism, totally unimportant and without any bearing whatever on the things that are basic in our society.

«Parents worry that their child must need his thumb, and they'll be taking away something he'll need; but it's an anachronism,» said Dr. Susan Heitler, a clinical psychologist in Denver and the author of a children's book on the topic, «David Decides: No More Thumbsucking» (1993, Avon, $ 8).

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.

Miliband, as I observed some time ago in a piece for ConservativeHome, should have dismissed as a preposterous anachronism the Tory attack on the trade union link.

There are some pop culture references to the 1970s, with Heart's «Barracuda» and Led Zeppelin's «Immigrant Song» featured on the soundtrack, but there's never the sense of a movie begging for laughs by throwing in anachronisms.

A KNIGHT»S TALE (Grade: D): This ambitious historical romance - adventure - comedy has one eye on «Gladiator» and the other on «Shakespeare in Love,» and then tries to wink at the audience with a rock music soundtrack and a stream of cool, hip anachronisms.

«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.»

Perhaps it's in this sort of reverse - anachronism that Baumbach is stating that TIME Magazine's so - called «Me» Generation has always been a part of history, and will likely continue on.

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).

There's even a few fantasy elements woven throughout the game's light story, a delightfully unexpected anachronism to the «modern rural community» tone set early on.

And there is much emphasis on historical detail, archive footage, quaint language, to show that the attitudes were of the period (1924), but also annoyingly glib anachronisms that seem meant to demonstrate that prejudice is timeless.

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.

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.

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And even though it's a bit of an anachronism to even call them «book covers» since there is no physical book and therefore no book cover at all, we seem to have agreed on the term.

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.

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.

Speaking of angles, the last and most noticeable anachronism is the use of the Grim Fandango - style «3D Models on a pre-rendered background» look that is so very reminiscent of the Nineties.

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.

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).

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.

Call me only if you are in the gutter, Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA Exalted Position, curated by Vlad Smolkin, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY Pipe Dream, presented by Night Gallery and Rachel Uffner Gallery, 170 Suffolk Street New York, NY Gallery Artist Group Show, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY TDW: Three Way Weekend, Blum & Poe, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, and ROGERS, Los Angeles, CA 2015 The John Riepenhoff Experience, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan Intimacy in Discourse: Unreasonable Sized Paintings, School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY Let's Be Real, Projekt 722, New York, NY 2014 The Crystal Palace, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY QUALIA, FJORD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2013 The Room and its Inhabitants, organized by Patrick Howlett, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada The 2013 deCordova Biennial (with Dushko Petrovich), deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA 2012 Love, curated by Stephen Truax, One River Gallery, Engelwood, NJ Art on Paper 2012, curated by Xandra Eden, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Take Shelter in the World, curated by Dushko Petrovich, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA In Plain Sight, organized by Nicole Russo and Lumi Tan, Mitchell - Innes & Nash, New York, NY 2011 The Idea of the Thing That it Isn't, curated by Rachel Uffner, Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY Channel to the New Image, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Battle of the Brush, organized by Corporate Art Solutions at Bryant Park, New York, NY 2010 The Pencil Show, Foxy Production, New York, NY ITEM, Mitchell - Innes & Nash, New York, NY S (l) umm (er) ing on Madison Avenue, curated by Jo - ey Tang, The Notary Public, New York, NY Kristin Calabrese, Andy Parker, Mary Weatherford, Roger White, Kathryn Brennan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009 What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid», curated by Ryan Steadman, 106 Green Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Cave Painting: Installment # 2, organized by Bob Nickas, Gresham's Ghost, New York, NY The Audio Show, organized by Seth Kelly, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY 2008 The Merits of Silence, Gallery Min Min, Tokyo 2007 Heralds of Creative Anachronism, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY The Price of Nothing, EFA Gallery, NY 2006 Mystic River, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY / Arcadia University, Glenside, PA 2005 Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL You Are Here, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX The Most Splendid Apocalypse, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY Crits» Pix, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2004 Halloween Horror Films,, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn NY Summery Summary, 58 N3, Brooklyn, NY 2003 Dreamy, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY Escape from New York, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ Late to Work Everyday, Dupreau Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Learnedamerica, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY Tirana Bienalle 1, National Gallery, Tirana, Albania 2000 Columbia University M.F.A. Thesis Show, Brooklyn, NY 1999 All Terrain, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY Wight Biennial, UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1998 Episode 1, Gair Building, Brooklyn, NY

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.)

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.

Pleasant pastimes such as skiing on real snow in the mountains of Norway may just slip away as some anachronism of the past, a harbinger to another time when nights were blissfully cold, lakes were frozen, and science teachers were well read.

As an aside: I'm in favour of changing «Law Society of Upper Canada» to «Law Society of Ontario» on the basis that «Upper Canada» is an anachronism.

But if we are moving to a world in which indexes themselves are incomprehensible, and even Boolean searching is viewed as an anachronism, lawyers might soon be completely dependent on algorithms developed by others, without their specific research needs in mind, to find the law that supports their arguments and forms their case theories.

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.

This earlier lawyer, so I was told, was considered something of an anachronism even in the 1950s, but he insisted on maintaining this way of practicing law because he believed that it was a necessary precondition for providing informed and competent advice to his clients.

Now that few writers rely on print reporters, with many actually lacking reasonable access to them, the rule's explicit prohibition on using Westlaw or LEXIS (or presumably any other electronic source) «as a source for the official case name» is manifestly an anachronism.

At a time when few researchers rely on print reports, the Supreme Court's continued dependence on a set of print volumes, produced long after the fact, for a case's official cite (and final text) is a costly anachronism.

I AM truly grateful to sit at my desk and look out across the LR through a wonderful old dark - framed 8 ′ wide picture window with sliders at a lush grapefruit tree and grass and trees as far as the eye can see in our greenbelt — an anachronism here in Sun City West but the reason 30 - year - old homes in our HOA are snapped up almost the day they go on the market.