Sentences with phrase «charming anachronism»

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.

In many ways, the Nobel Prize is a charming anachronism.

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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.

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