Sentences with phrase «like anachronism»

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.

The fold down center armrest in a coupe seems like an anachronism back to the olden days of large»70s «personal luxury» coupes.

The existing unit instead complements the A4's technophile personality without feeling like an anachronism.

If Dumb and Dumber To escapes feeling like the anachronism it is, it's partly because Harry and Lloyd have come to embody a fairly scathing caricature of the modern man - child.

- like anachronism of an introductory song.

And the writers really need to watch it with those Flintstones - like anachronisms.

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With the price, size and weight of tablets coming down dramatically, the single - purpose e-reader seems like something of an anachronism.

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.

Using as evidence its obvious parallels to their 19th century accounts tying the American Indian to Israel's lost tribes, its descriptions of situations, incidents and characters suspiciously like those within Joseph Smith's ken, its echoes of Masonic lore, its Isaiah passages and its bountiful supply of anachronisms, they conclude that the work is not only worthless but a fraud.

Analysts will nitpick Aldridge's anachronism, Dejounte Murray's limitations, the front office's odd free agent decisions (like that still - bizarre Pau Gasol contract), and the team's inability to hang offensively with the Rockets or Warriors.

Like several other words of political invective, their imprecise use stands as a substitute for thinking about the situation at hand, They are also anachronisms.

Some days I feel like a dinosaur, an anachronism left over from the days when people took pictures of their outfits in the mirror.

Its underlined, reiterated racial epithet may rescue Huck Finn from Mrs. Grundy, and 1858 anachronisms like modern potty - mouthing and dynamite are not what detract from what could have been a rousing tale if the two - and - three - quarter - hours did not blow itself up.

Like Archer, the Russia - set Red Sparrow takes place in an alternate dimension where it's simultaneously 1968 and 2018, but it wholly lacks the animated series» playful anachronism.

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.

«That, combined with the fact that he was an anachronism living the 1940s and that he was then old and looking back on his life trying to solve this mystery, it all felt to me when I was reading the script like this character that we've seen so many facets of was revealing new things about himself.»

Oil derricks pump forlornly in the background as the town struggles to survive, making Arash's fancy, shiny car seem like the most pointed of anachronisms.

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

Among hi - tech alternatives such as the Mercedes S - Class, Audi A8 and BMW 7 Series, the big cat looks like something of an anachronism.

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.

In an age of carlike luxury utes, the Range Rover feels like a wonderful anachronism.

Back in the present, St Oswald's is entering the age of technology and some of the old guard, especially anachronisms such as classics teachers, are hunkered down in their offices like soldiers in the trenches, defending themselves against the new guard who want to bring the school into the 21st century.

First of all, as Susanne Alleyn points out in her clever and very readable book, Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders: A Writer's (and Editor's) Guide to Keeping Historical Fiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors, and Myth, an author of historical fiction needs to recognize that the city of today can be vastly different from the city of whatever time period you are writing about, and this is true even when you are talking about a relatively young city like San Francisco and a time period that is only 132 years in the past.

What a review like yours can do is warn away the readers who aren't going to enjoy anachronisms, and let people who do know this will be their cup of tea.

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Books are toast, an anachronism like vinyl albums.

In my free time I like to do Medieval Reenactment with the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism).

I like Luc Tuyman's idea of the painted canvas as something of an «anachronism», existing through time, in its own time, outside the parameters of our own reality.

My approach to landscape painting feels more like a nihilistic last resort, or an embarrassing anachronism, rather than a channel for communicating important issues of our time.

At the heart of the exhibition, an installation of five totem pole — like columns from the series «Achronies» (Anachronisms), 2017, evoked the Roman Forum.

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.

The world has changed a lot since then, and perhaps what I'm describing seems a bit of an imperialist anachronism, like reading Kipling or Graham Greene.

Though he likes to describe himself as an anachronism, Hannah's poignant, often elegiac and uncanny work has been, for decades, an important herald of successive waves of figurative painters.

Clinging to a specific form like blogging is an anachronism, Ana argues — like wearing spats, or driving a Model T roadster when there is a perfectly good Porsche in the garage, or referring to driving as «Model T - ing.»

In the same vein, shows like Fresh off the Boat and Insecure are making the lives of minorities more mundane and mainstream, brushing off anachronisms like Long Duk Dong from Sixteen Candles and adding fresh, strong female relationships between black women.