Sentences with phrase «considered anachronisms»

When we think of craft, we tend to think of expensive handmade objects, often considered anachronisms in a world of mass production and mass consumption.

Brown was considered an anachronism in some quarters, a man whose irascible in - your - face style had gone out of fashion 20 years ago... and was hard to take even then.

A character in a sci - fi game could say a line that is considered an anachronism from the 21st century; a game full of realistic enemies could suddenly introduce monsters that don't fit the rest of the world.

Not exact matches

The repeating names may suggest a certain Gilded Age anachronism, but A.G. is considered a real heavyweight in the newsroom — a smart and humble editor who's also very astute about the difficult state of the news business.

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

Paying financial advisors via commissions on transactions is widely considered to be an anachronism and there has been a slow, multi-decade movement away from it.

We will perhaps consider this repeated attempt to moralise and value Camp as Good / Bad, Normative / Queer, Intentional / Naive (and many other failed attempts to draw distinctions) but also talk about pleasure and delight in the seriousness that misses its mark, the gesture which does too much and the anachronism which skews tastefulness.

This earlier lawyer, so I was told, was considered something of an anachronism even in the 1950s, but he insisted on maintaining this way of practicing law because he believed that it was a necessary precondition for providing informed and competent advice to his clients.