Sentences with phrase «as anachronisms»

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....

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»?

Summer is a popular time to write opinion pieces calling for the end of summer vacation as an anachronism that widens achievement gaps between rich and poor students.

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

Functionally outpaced by its more recent peers, Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim enjoys its space as an anachronism.

Though he likes to describe himself as an anachronism, Hannah's poignant, often elegiac and uncanny work has been, for decades, an important herald of successive waves of figurative painters.

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.

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.

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«As «search» becomes an anachronism and personalization the new normal,» she writes, «we'll have deeper issues to deal with.»

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 salesperson as Lone Ranger is becoming something of an anachronism.

@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.

Using as evidence its obvious parallels to their 19th century accounts tying the American Indian to Israel's lost tribes, its descriptions of situations, incidents and characters suspiciously like those within Joseph Smith's ken, its echoes of Masonic lore, its Isaiah passages and its bountiful supply of anachronisms, they conclude that the work is not only worthless but a fraud.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

It's a philosophy that as Andrew has pointed out, may be now be an anachronism and untenable in 21st century world football.

As with so many things in elections, a law meant to bolster democracy is now a weird, cumbersome anachronism easily solved with the universal, eternal political lubricant: dollar bills.

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.»

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.

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.

What starts as a charming anachronism % u2014 pens, paper and the postal service in an impersonal digital age % u2014 becomes tedious as Hallstrom is reduced to interminable, repetitive montages covering the many months that the pair are apart.

Marc Shaiman's score may make clever period choices (backing eyelash flutters with a plonk of the xylophone, for instance), but almost every line of dialogue is tainted with as much irony as charm, transforming the film's script into a self - conscious anachronism.

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.

In both features, Altman is familiarly painted as an adventurous man given to trusting his intuition, whether advising Keith Carradine to cut his hair, or sticking with a handful of Leonard Cohen songs for the soundtrack, despite the anachronism of their presence in a narrative set in 1900.

Tubman technically wasn't in the Bible, obviously, so her inclusion might strike some as a bit of an anachronism.

He's less an actor (no one thinks of him as an actor, though he's not bad) than a presence: one part pro-athlete, one part rock star, one part pop - culture anachronism.

Anachronisms abound, as we watch 70s style outfits in the superfluous roller derby scene, the Chuck Taylor Converse All - Stars sneakers worn by one of the main fighters in the brawl, and a curious lack of segregation in many of the situations that would have been taboo at the time, including an interracial relationship that goes by unnoticed even to the obvious racists in the film.

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.

But don't dismiss this as a misguided anachronism.

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).

This results in overwhelming confusion and obfuscation, as well as Ritchie's constant anachronisms, including score, dialogue and period technology.

In period contexts, anachronism is funny only as long as it is the occasional exception rather than the rule (which is why B.C. is funnier than The Flintstones, and why The Twelve Chairs is better than Blazing Saddles).

Oil derricks pump forlornly in the background as the town struggles to survive, making Arash's fancy, shiny car seem like the most pointed of anachronisms.

And music is used as a quirky anachronism (like in A Knight's Tale), however its inclusion is more strange than charming.

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 commission accepted the system as it was, with all the anachronisms inherent in a political mechanism created in the mid-19th century.

Among hi - tech alternatives such as the Mercedes S - Class, Audi A8 and BMW 7 Series, the big cat looks like something of an 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.

The vehicles are anachronisms, heavy - mobiles weighing as much as 3,922 pounds in an era when light is considered environmentally right.

She looks for factual errors, including geographical goofs or anachronisms, such as a song that didn't come out until a decade after your characters go to the prom.

Membership in special - interest club - type organizations such as Mensa or the Society for Creative Anachronism.

Back in the present, St Oswald's is entering the age of technology and some of the old guard, especially anachronisms such as classics teachers, are hunkered down in their offices like soldiers in the trenches, defending themselves against the new guard who want to bring the school into the 21st century.