Sentences with phrase «as anachronistic»

Such a law today, applied to print, would be seen as an anachronistic non-starter (it would apply to anyone with a computer printer).

It's probably properly labeled as anachronistic, as I'd assume this would be left over from times when just changing your name and riding your horse to the next town probably solved a bunch of problems.

Moreover, the court simply saw such bans as anachronistic and unnecessary to maintain the integrity of the bar.

Many view the export ban and fossil fuel subsidies as anachronistic, but the intervening years have shown that as hard as it is to put policies in place, it may be even more difficult to change existing ones.

It is an approach as anachronistic as an animal trial would be today.

They revel in action painting at its most expansive, expressive register, without the slightest acknowledgement that their iconic gestural style might be seen as anachronistic.

The Reagents is Odunsi's second solo exhibition and presents a similar curiosity with Los Angeles as Anachronistic Capture: Motion & Stills did in April 2012.

Puppy mills are as anachronistic as shelter killing.

Printed collections will be around for quite a while, but the monthly comic is as anachronistic as television commercials, since nearly all comics stories are written with the trade (or hardcover) in mind rather than the single issue they first appear in.

The Outlander features a trick headliner that acts as an odour fighter, as well as an anachronistic two - piece tailgate: the lower segment drops down to aid loading while the glass hatch swings up.

It's as anachronistic as a car can get in 2015.

Pensions systems have been often described as anachronistic and unfit for the current labor force.

The use of actors like Kirsten Dunst and Jason Schwartzman, who are not known as period actors, as well as anachronistic music, sounds like an ill - conceived attempt to make the story feel contemporary, but it actually works.

Promising to follow the James M. Cain pot - boiler formula with its dense voiceovers and faux - sordid, sepia - stained sexing, Ask the Dust is actually just inert, a painfully - overwritten, impossible - to - execute picture loaded down with self - conscious slatted shadows and mirrors (and all manner of noir affectations) that isn't only set in 1930s Los Angeles, but plays exactly as anachronistic and fusty as most films produced in the Thirties, too.

Brolin's team of Untouchables includes charming ladies» man Gosling (who has finally reached the level of glib self - parody), weasel - faced electronics whiz Giovanni Ribisi, hot - headed Anthony Mackie, and sharpshooter Robert Patrick, whose performance as an anachronistic cowboy feels like a feature - length homage to Sam Elliott.

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

It should come as no surprise if they view the British army as anachronistic for sanctioning gender discrimination.

Since 1918, clause IV has been regarded as an anachronistic shibboleth or a timeless call to arms, depending on a person's view of public ownership (that is the people, through the state, owning large parts of the means of production, distribution and exchange in the economy).

The Labour party was founded on a class divide which is increasingly seen as anachronistic.

We rediscover images — such as heaven — that we used to dismiss as anachronistic or overly sentimental.

Not exact matches

«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.

As the other big streaming device player, the company is selling what looks like an increasingly anachronistic product.

As a result, their approach to mega-deals is increasingly anachronistic.

While we should hesitate to pass an anachronistic judgment on his behavior, we can at least restrain the celebrations of his fiancée, Maria von Wedemeyer, as his true love, the heroine for the perfect hero — celebrations that were inspired by the publication of their correspondence in Love Letters from Cell 92.

He asserts emphatically: «The gospel (without in the least slighting any other of the things it preaches) must be interpreted as requiring abolition of the class system, an end of the American bombing of Vietnam and of the wasteful armaments competition, and the obliteration of anachronistic frontiers.»

Wolfe's references to Britney Spears as a campus cultural icon are anachronistic.

Edwards is not so anachronistic on this point as he was, not so anachronistic as his 19th - century critics now seem.

Edwards on human unfreedom is not so anachronistic as he was.

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.»

Although logos can be translated as «theory» that is anachronistic if by theory we mean a set of ideas in the mind of enquirers, or a set of statements written down.

As Hook and Reno write, Vergil «does not wish us to cast our lot with Dido and our anachronistic ideas of authenticity.»

It would be altogether superficial (it would, in fact, be anachronistic) to say «Jesus never asked anyone to believe a creed» (that, as a matter of fact, although often said, is scarcely true — see Mark 12.28).

It should not strike us as ridiculously anachronistic to make such an attempt, even though it is notoriously dangerous to approach an ancient thinker with modern categories.

«Nazism» would be an anachronistic thing to look for — but the atrocities of the Holocaust are equally condemned... as are many other things the bible calls evil (including things that many evangelicals aren't so quick to point out).

No one actually takes the Monarchy seriously any more as the «Divine Right of Kings», and maybe it provides a good opportunity for discussion of precisely that wierd and anachronistic notion and the origins of state and civil authority in Western Civilization.

Since meanings come from social systems, It seems extremely anachronistic to refer to pre-Constantinian Jesus groups as «Christians» and to their ideology as «Christianity.»

There is little concern about whether the descriptions and ideas this form of interpretation yields are ethnocentric and / or anachronistic, so long as they are relevant to the present.

Jackson's heady, steady style had come to be viewed as so anachronistic that he had been traded three times in the last four seasons.

I understand not being able to switch around the TV schedule as there are other scheduled programs, but to not at least have the coverage available for a live stream is an anachronistic oversight.

But while modern scientists have learned that predators are sorely needed ecologically, and while stock operations have long since passed out of the shoestring category of the old West, sheepmen have continued their anachronistic war on predators as though their very existences depended on poisoning the last one off.

But the opposition to the anachronistic use of topless pictures in The Sun - as evidenced by my story earlier today about the Cheltenham Town Ladies» FC - is relentless.

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.

It's a bit of silliness that seems at odds with the LOTR - ishness that Jackson is trying to build — as are three trolls who come off as an epicurean Three Stooges — and some other gags that feel very anachronistic («You have got to be joking!»).

Much as Geraldine Chaplin's weirdly anachronistic lead performance as a contemporary character in Rudolph's Remember My Name (1978) evokes Barbara Stanwyck roles in various women - oriented melodramas of the 30s, Watson's gaffes seem to hark back to some of the 50s dumb - blond routines of Marilyn Monroe, Judy Holliday, Jayne Mansfield, and Barbara Nichols.

Notable among the many other supporting players are quite a few actors of color who, anachronistic as their appearance may be in 18th - century France, still offer up a pleasantly diverse set of faces that nod in the direction of an «It's a small world, after all» ethos that Disney all - too - often has ignored in the past.

Obviously, Fuchs» anachronistic screenplay takes a few liberties, such as in setting the story during World War II, well after the source material was already written.

Cruise's performance overpowers his anachronistic casting, and as his mentor, Ken Watanabe is both fierce and enlightened.

Naturally the effects look outstanding, but story wise it still looks as trite, cliched, melodramatic, heavy - handed, anachronistic, and preachy as it came across in the script treatment.

You only really hear the proverbial crickets during Jonah Hill's characteristically profane cameo as the adult incarnation of said ghost: Where most of the performances are purposefully one - dimensional, Hill's — owing to the actor's intractably anachronistic demeanour — is the only one that comes off as technically crude.

Certainly, Cooper has a physical presence that suggests he should fit right into a warrior role with ease, but his delivery of lines, as well as his demeanor, is just too modern in appearance to not seem somewhat anachronistic to the events of the story.