Sentences with word «anachronistic»

Today, rules like these feel as anachronistic as dial telephones.

They may seem anachronistic in today's world.

CLRN had asked organizations to «freeze» their content for two years and make it available as a PDF — a move that director Brian Bridges admits may seem anachronistic in a Web 2.0 world, but in the future he hopes to review updates more frequently.

An alternate history, Victorian - era London filled with anachronistic technology, a storyline wrought with secret sects and ancient monsters, and a stunningly rendered Steampunk aesthetic with a graphical fidelity heretofore unheard of on home consoles?

But it's the right move — the prior design would have felt anachronistic on powerful systems, and the new approach frees up Capcom's designers to make complex, multilayered areas that open up the game's action.

However, what transforms this show from criminally fun to amazing is its excellent use of anachronistic music.

In Moulton's volume on Greek moods in the New Testament, additionally, Moulton explains that the formula for wishing can be translated as «let it be x.» In this book, written in 1906, Moulton uses examples of anachronistic uses of the optative in colloquial English, including «would that it be so» or «be it so,» something comparable to the English translation of the vulgate's fiat, «let it be done.»

Slavery is appallingly not anachronistic even 20 centuries out.

From anachronistic design elements to the era of film depicted, the Coens are able to portray a world that has somehow always been and inevitably will be by showing a world somehow flung out of time.

«We are supporting the mayor's plan to end the inhumane and anachronistic practice of forcing exhausted horses to pull rickety carts through dangerous Manhattan traffic,» Allie Feldman, the executive director of NYCLASS, told the Observer.

The same dynamic is playing out in the fight to sustain the somewhat anachronistic field of «restoration ecology.»

Her artistic practice is distinguished by complex processes of appropriation and transformation, in which she applies artisanal, even anachronistic methods, integrating them into a contemporary context.

In these large - scale and visually surprising compositions, the artist fuses a wealth of anachronistic elements into a unified whole, as in the World War I biplane and Spanish galleon that co-exist in Medieval Divided Self, or he evokes pivotal battles from vastly different epochs of British and American history, such as Agincourt and the Battle of the Alamo.

«The PR piece of this is essential because for the first time, we're having a dialogue in this country about anachronistic laws and how we revamp our public education system for the modern world so it serves children first and foremost,» Brown said.

Service, responsibility, duty, and honor almost sound like anachronistic ideas from the past.

Tax expenditures in the energy sector, in particular, are prime candidates for falling under the axe, both because nixing them would generate a lot of money and because they're looking increasingly anachronistic in the era of the shale boom.

Divorce litigation, where spouses are pitted against one another as adversaries, is an outdated, anachronistic model of dispute resolution.

Based on Victor Hugo's hefty classic, and given an operetta treatment that can be soaring and glorious - or, when the lyrics slip into anachronistic vernacular, wincingly lame - this big - budget movie musical summons the mighty forces of CGI to create vast tableaux of castles and monasteries, shipyards and slums, France in the tumultuous first half of the 19th century.

Cutting through this schmaltz is a laser - like performance from Rebecca Hall, whose intelligence and line delivery is entertaining if anachronistic.

In a year of creeping and suffocating nationalisms, the creation of a Diaspora Pavilion is a particularly effective way of foregrounding global networks and displacement, trans - nationalisms and cross-cultural exchange, creating a contrast to the rather anachronistic notion of national pavilions.

Birnbaum's more recent work Arabesque (2011) abandons such anachronistic technology to apply a feminist critique to the history of classical music, invoking the story of Robert Schumann and his wife Clara, a 19th - century composer couple whose artistic talents were more equally matched than their relative levels of renown would suggest.

Once the whole story is revealed to us in a flashback (another compelling sequence, although it's marred by a mistakenly anachronistic soundtrack cue), the script has still managed to hold a few unexpected surprises.

And as a reader myself, I don't like anachronistic books.

They're not narratively comparable movies, but they're connected by complementary world views, a central focus on socially anachronistic characters and a view of the country that's enhanced by blunt symbolism.

Since 2007 the group has been seeking to re-examine multimedia by artfully combining emerging and anachronistic technologies to create improvised performances, non-linear sound and visuals.

Tarantino doesn't shy from seemingly anachronistic selections, all of which work.

The Florida judge has a quaintly anachronistic view of money as something that is capable of being «hidden under a mattress like cash and gold bars»!

«We have anachronistic laws on the books,» Horner said.

Anachronistic terms like slush - pile are still being tossed around, even though readers no longer need a proxy to decide what they're likely to prefer.

In jarring juxtapositions of contemporary, modernist and retro - futuristic motifs within classical landscape compositions, Ged Quinn's large scale paintings combine anachronistic references to art and literature with the strong traditions of landscape and still - life painting.

Whether these actions are read as critical updates or anachronistic throwbacks to well - worn conceptual tactics is up for debate.

«Oddball» is a decidely anachronistic presence as the leader of a tank outfit of pre-Beat, pre - «free love» hippies; they practice psychological warfare by playing music in battle and shooting paint out of their tanks.

with only anachronistic sensibilities and subjects.

There are some things we can and should do to preclude the possibility of becoming anachronistic.

When you strip the conformist requirement, suppression of the individual, arbitrary and anachronistic rules, and ritual observances, it is very easy for a group of otherwise good people to become an unthinking mob.

by Bill Chambers The common charge levelled at Ryan's Daughter when it was released in 1970 was that it seemed anachronistic within contemporary film culture.

Nonetheless, the two communities must realize by now that that they have to reform and amend their old, anachronistic ways and especially their views of each other.

This delay «is an incredibly anachronistic concept, in the days of «big data,» for an $ 8 - billion mission funded with public resources with a five - year life,» says Garth Illingworth, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who also chaired an influential advisory committee for Webb.

As promised, Tunga's Siamese Hair Twins was a particularly eerie edition to the fair, as the performing children's slightly anachronistic dress gave their presence an even more alien aura than in previous iterations, and placed against the backdrop of collectors, advisors and dealers in the fair's opening hours, the artist's twisted emblem of childish innocence was all the more potent.

«Far Cry 5» went all - in on US culture as its setting, and it stands out as one of the most anachronistic games I've ever played.

Our present age seems to be highly unstable and becomes frequently interrupted by anachronistic processes.

As decoration, they sampled anachronistic styles and indulged a fanciful sense of history.

So my book also is about the balance between the public sector and the private sector, although these terms are rather anachronistic.

The governor has admitted that giving municipal leaders more leverage they seek to blow up expensive and sometimes anachronistic collective bargaining agreements is a «non-starter» in the Legislature.

Brooks portrays Mel Funn, aging film director whose career was ruined through excessive drinking, and who tries — like a farcical Norma Desmond — to stage a comeback by means of a wildly anachronistic script idea.

On the occasion of her recent renowned 2014 - 2017 European retrospective, The Passion According to Carol Rama, Anne Dressen described Rama's effect: «Expressionist, Surrealist, Pop, Minimalist: Rama is all those things, and sometimes even appears anachronistic, knowingly outside the big identified movements and, for that very reason, eternally contemporary» (Anne Dressen,» Foreign Bodies» in The Passion According to Carol Rama, exh.