Sentences with phrase «by anachronisms»

However, the first - generation model was hampered by anachronisms like an early version of the MMI infotainment system that utilized a relatively clunky dashboard - mounted control knob.

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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.

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.

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.

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»?

In spite of frantic appeals by the Popes, the crusading spirit had so far become an anachronism that in Western Europe, divided into rival nation - states, no effective united effort was made to stem the Turkish tide.

The maintenance and amendment of said Laws is the responsibility of IFAB, the International Football Association Board, which thanks to the enduring power of anachronism is made up half by representatives of FIFA, and half by representatives from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

This anonymity might have made sense during the Troubles, when donors to political parties could have been targeted by paramilitaries, but it's now an anachronism.

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.

C, the new head of Britain's intelligence services (played by Andrew Scott), believes that secret agents are an anachronism, and what the world really needs is around - the - clock, around - the - world surveillance of everything.

by Walter Chaw A little like Neil Diamond, Kevin Costner is an anachronism whose earnestness has landed him in Squaresville when the tragedy is that with a little tweaking in perspective, his peculiar brand of old - school earnestness might have his contemporaries looking upon him with more admiration than mirth.

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.

And thus, our years in review may be construed for their difference — a difference marked by contrarianism, anachronism, obscurantism, compulsion, and, above all, variety.

Much of «The Little Hours,» directed by Jeff Baena (who wrote «I Heart Huckabees»), is the humor of 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).

Quite understandably, audiences were mystified by the appearance of helicopters and limos in 1850s Nicaragua, for two reasons: (1) Cox did not weave such anachronisms consistently through the first half of the film, and (2) he imbued the film with a solemn tone that could not accommodate such surprises.

His lifestyle is set to become an anachronism and the embers of the»60s hippy be-in have all but been extinguished by the murderous antics of the Manson family and the disaster at the The Altamont Speedway Free Festival.

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.

Some might argue that this chunky powerplant, whether turbocharged in a Bentley or naturally aspirated in an Audi A8, is a decadent anachronism and has, in any case, been usurped for relevance in the modern world by the more efficient and cleaner Audi - sourced V8 that powers slightly less costly Conti GTs and GTCs.

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.

I can't tell you how often I see, «Libraries are an anachronism of the past» immediately followed by, «I haven't been in a library in years...»

It's not hard to imagine a world where the Box Sale (and by extension, Gamestop's brick and mortar stores) are a curious anachronism as soon as 5 years from now.

Unfortunately, the game's sense of earnestness is undermined by the occasional anachronism which belies the vaguely medieval, high fantasy tone.

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

The game has been well received by reviewers, but is Croft now an anachronism?

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).

Thus abstraction is not a move away from representation (or a complete anachronism), but one of several mechanisms by which we picture ourselves.

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

Two wistful young men making enigmatic hand gestures, awkwardly recline by a campfire in Adrian Wiszniewski's idiosyncratic painting The First Anachronism of the Day.

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.)

Richter's landscapes were not merely anachronisms but a modern, impersonal view of earth, ocean and sky; in its spareness and delicate coloring «Bridge (By the Sea, 1969, private collection, Berlin)» almost recalls Whistler's misty Japonese - like renderings of Battersea Bridge in London, but Richer's vision is thoroughly modern.

Donald is fascinated by the way in which this system of values in the world of decoy making and collecting (still vital today, in spite of the anachronism of duck hunting) echoes so directly that of the art world — while the art world (in spite of claims that we are beyond modernism with its distinctions between high and low culture) would have nothing of such objects.

In an age where the printed book may soon be an anachronism, artists remain fascinated by the subject and materials of the book.

Through complex schemes, marked by several layers of symbolism, themes such as body image, sexuality, social turmoils and political convulsions are communicated in a vertiginous speed, forming a whirlwind of multiple anachronisms which combine autobiographical scenes from the artist's domestic life and public events belonging Brazilian history — both those stamped in the country's social imaginary as well as those programmatically neglected from it.

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.

The elapse of time; the belief that separation policies were fundamentally well - intentioned; the perceived anachronism of judging past events by today's standards; and the lack of immediate personal involvement were all seen to exonerate both the present generation of non-Indigenous Australians and current Australian governments.

At this point, where a better grasp of the internet and how to use it is held by all, realtor.ca is an anachronism that blocks the change necessary for our industry to continue to evolve.