Sentences with phrase «by anachronistic»

The filmmakers aren't discomfited by the anachronistic music and it proves to be The Greatest Showman's most effective selling point.

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So it seems very safe to say that the passages in Genesis are NOT anachronistic or contradictory, but reflect well the milieu of the period, and are supported by archaeological and textual data.

In the face of technical developments, which long ago made local and international radio - telephony possible, and which constantly opened up new wavebands for television — in the UHF band alone, the dissemination of numerous programs in one locality is possible without interference, not to mention the possibilities offered by wired and satellite television — the prevailing laws for control of the air are 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.

The problem of a politically anachronistic church is compounded by the fact that Christianity avoided the blame for slavery and colonialism by turning the gospel into an entrepreneurial work of trading salvation with souls.

By shifting our attention from the now completely irrelevant and anachronistic politics of nationalism and military power to the problems of the human species and the still inchoate politics of human ecology we shall be killing two birds with one stone — reducing the threat of sudden destruction by scientific war and at the same time reducing the threat of a more gradual biological disasteBy shifting our attention from the now completely irrelevant and anachronistic politics of nationalism and military power to the problems of the human species and the still inchoate politics of human ecology we shall be killing two birds with one stone — reducing the threat of sudden destruction by scientific war and at the same time reducing the threat of a more gradual biological disasteby scientific war and at the same time reducing the threat of a more gradual biological disaster.

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.

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.

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.

The Westphalian state system, while still used by many scholars, is, in a sense, anachronistic.

Meg Russell: The Queen's speech: Gordon Brown should indeed strengthen parliament: by dispensing with today's anachronistic hoopla.

The truth is that places for Bishops are an anachronistic feudal hangover, the retention of which is supported not by democratic will or principles of public accountability but by opaque vested interests.»

Here for the first time (give or take one or two irritatingly anachronistic uses of the word «feminist») I found myself unconvinced by this generally sympathetic and entertaining writer, partly because the idea of defined social purpose might tie physicists too closely to the prevailing orthodoxies and pieties of the day.

First, you must recognize that the current structure of medical schools and universities, with their anachronistic, rigid «up or out» promotion and tenure systems, were designed to accommodate the male physician - scientist of earlier generations whose career ambitions were supported by stay - at - home wives who assumed all household and child - rearing responsibilities.

To call Early Man wildly anachronistic would be an understatement: the opening flashback sequence that depicts humans and dinosaurs living side by side is but the first of its obvious and unclever bizarrities.

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.

The result is highly stylized but fractured — a film with a modern look populated by unbelievable, anachronistic characters, despite fine performances by Anjelica Huston and Annette Bening.

The two leads, James Franco and Sophia Myles, generate a modicum of chemistry, despite being penned in by a clunky script; more points deducted by the inclusion of a thoroughly anachronistic John Donne poem.

Honorable Mentions: As usual, some good films have to fall just outside the top 10 list including: Tommy Lee Jones «feature - length directorial debut, «The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada ``; Christopher Nolan «s excellent, in - between - Batman - movies cum rival magician film, «The Prestige,» starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale; Guillermo del Toro «s fantastical fairy tale, «Pan's Labyrinth ``; Sofia Coppola «s anachronistic teen alienation set in the 16th century, «Marie Antoinette ``; Martin Campbell «s superb rebooting of the Bond franchise with «Casino Royale ``; Martin Scorsese «s «Infernal Affairs» remake «The Departed» (which has been on TV so many bloody times, its power has worn off); Oliver Assayas ««Clean» which featured a Cannes - winning performance by Maggie Cheung as a struggling addict; and Park Chan - Wook «s final installment of his vengeance trilogy, the beautifully haunting, «Lady Vengeance.»

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.

The anachronistic gang, led by Greta Gerwig's Violet, is totally separate from their peers, saying that they're the same age as the «young people» that they are trying to help but only only in a numerical sense.

The use of photographs - within - film to freeze characters in a milieu while defining it in modern terms was already a worn idea when George Roy Hill claimed it for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and here it's handled with even less integrity, by way of a photographer whose 19th - century camera and anachronistic darkroom give him in a few short hours prints of a quality no photographer achieved before about 1920.

«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.

(The pinched - nose maitre d', played by Lenny von Dohlen, wears an anachronistic upswoop of hair just a bit less outre than the one Carradine sported in 1985's Trouble in Mind.)

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.

This 2004 film directed by Antoine Fuqua from a screenplay by David Franzoni is not just ahistorical in a run of the mill anachronistic or «hey things didn't happen like that» kind of way.

Above all, the anachronistic, energetic contemporary soundtrack is what drives MOULIN ROUGE, with popular songs by L'il Kim, Christina Aguilera, David Bowie, and Beck — as well as Kidman and McGregor adding their own superb vocals.

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.

And so, when the union draws a hard line against changes to its pay and benefit structure, you can see why it might strike some sizable segment of voters as being a little anachronistic, like mimeographing homework assignments or sharpening a pencil by hand.

The ebb and flow, to and fro, stop and go, and high and low of sporting accomplishment is beautifully simulated by these sometimes anachronistic mechanics.

Rohatyn admits that the premise is «almost anachronistic,» yet feels it's ultimately appropriate for the subject at hand: «To me, dead artists are kept alive through living artists looking at their work and being inspired by it,» she says.

These painters he has assembled share in pictorial values that get neglected by the mainstream art media, or worse call it retrograde and anachronistic.

Even though a lot has happened since, and no matter how anachronistic it may seem, our yardstick for serious painting is still shadowed by the achievements of the New York School.

Similarly, Eric de Chassey, in the catalogue that accompanies the exhibition «Alex Katz: Small Paintings,» begins his essay by informing us that «Alex Katz is one of very few artists working today capable of creating works that can be reconciled with the world, without seeming anachronistic.»

Most painters responded by getting weirder, more abstract, more experimental; representational figurative art was anachronistic, inert, crusty — a form of vanity exclusive to the rich.

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.

Because the works «take by force a structure that was on the verge of asserting itself» (as Felix Guattari wrote on George Condo's paintings in an early text, 1990), they generate disquieted and often humorous images: incongruous, absurd, anachronistic, kitsch, regressive or hybrid works.

These contemporary works present sly anachronistic disjunctions: they are painted by Purdy in an elaborate scumble and glaze technique and treat conventional Beaux - arts subjects ---LSB-...]

In tune with the previous performance works by the artist, «Hemings in Paris» is an attempt to activate public space, image the fantastical and anachronistic, and present narratives (mine along with hers) that facilitate the collapsing of the past and present both in content and form.

These drawings and oils on wood panel, in a style and technique inspired by Flemish and Italian painters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, also contain a foreign, anachronistic element: an eclipse, a cloud of smoke or a rock levitating over a landscape.

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.

Painlessly anachronistic and lightly romantic, the aesthetics of these images (neglected by the history of Photography) has infuenced the work of contemporary photographers — such as Torbjorn Rodland, Collier Schorr ot Wolfgang Tillmans — and through themoonseries is being rediscovered and re-used marked (or maybe «kissed»?)

These contemporary works present sly anachronistic disjunctions: they are painted by Purdy in an elaborate scumble and glaze technique and treat conventional Beaux - arts subjects — portraits, still life, landscape....

This liminal sense of perspective is further emphasized by the initially incongruous text at the bottom of the work: «Saturnine Swing» in small, anachronistic typewritten letters.

The 2020s matter because by that time we will be 30 years removed from the original 1992 division of countries, making that division ever more anachronistic.

Similarly to what was described in the guest article written by Ido Goldberg on Legal Tech in Israel, Belgian law firms to this date mostly use simple, low - tech solutions such as Word extensions and anachronistic practice management software.

Safire ignores that successful writers seek serve their readers» needs, and they don't intentionally trivialize those needs in the name of upholding an anachronistic predilection originated by an 18th - Century British schoolteacher.

Objections to the move could be seen as being old - fashioned and anachronistic — just as the Law Society is often seen to be by many.

Instead of being led astray by Newman's anachronistic vision of a federal government overriding local interests and minority rights to build projects of national importance, Alberta Premier Jim Prentice and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall should follow Ontario's and Quebec's example and commit to respecting Aboriginal rights and Treaty rights.

In fact, Ver might be better served by shuttering the original Bitcoin Games platform and redirecting its customers to links where they can convert their increasingly anachronistic Segwit BTC tokens for BCH, aka the cryptocurrency that people actually use.