Sentences with phrase «of anachronisms»

My one problem with Lady Jayne Disappears was the number of anachronisms.

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.

There are plenty of anachronisms in the movie's humor, but the most consistent is Albert himself, whose acknowledgement of how awful things are also suggests that he's aware it will get much better in the future.

Expect plenty of anachronisms, less - than - convincing digital effects, and miscasting; Daniel Lee, a specialist in big - budget historical fantasies, directed from his own script.

This book is appalinglyresearched, full of anachronisms and inaccuracies with characterisation that is straight out of the music hall.

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.

Beyond the power of anachronisms to conceal, this word moves through the Bible correctly representing in its altering significance the progress of the Hebrew - Christian idea of God and of the basic conditions of approaching him.

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

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.

The salesperson as Lone Ranger is becoming something of an anachronism.

If nothing else, Wright's work will force us to deal with the problems of anachronism and truncated interpretations of Jesus that lead to such horrible aberrations as anti-Semitism on the one hand and an all - too - modern non-Jewish Jesus on the other.

Martin Luther did not fully appreciate how much of an anachronism church was in his own age.

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.

Despite media arguments about the theoretical importance of parliamentarydebates, the print press has cut back on its coverage, including parliamentary sketchwriting, which is in the words of Mathew Parris, the former Tory MP and Times sketchwriter, something of an anachronism.

But then I realized, they're not getting rid of this anachronism, just temporarily ignoring it.

Despite acknowledging the danger of anachronism, he is actually likening the Aristotelian concept of eidos to modern biology's notion of genetic information.

The family has not always been popular and their problems have gone beyond the usual complaints about how much they cost and how much of anachronism monarchy seems in this day and age.

Tubman technically wasn't in the Bible, obviously, so her inclusion might strike some as a bit of an anachronism.

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

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.

For 20 years, the Woodward Avenue Dream Cruise has been a sort of anachronism, even in metro Detroit.

And even though it's a bit of an anachronism to even call them «book covers» since there is no physical book and therefore no book cover at all, we seem to have agreed on the term.

Assassin's Creed is storied, if nothing else, a beautiful tapestry of anachronism and pretty landscapes.

In an art world where there is a lot of chatter about galleries and studios opening further and further east — in Chinatown, the Lower East Side, and across the river into Brooklyn's Bushwick and Greenpoint — Sugimoto's Chelsea studio is something of an anachronism.

IMAGES OR SHADOWS OF DIVINE THINGS, an installation comprising black - and - white photographs that Gerard Byrne has been making since 2005, limns the specific sense of anachronism one sees so frequently in the Irish artist's work and served as an enigmatic introduction to this solo exhibition.

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.

Artists as renowned as Gerhard Richter and Alex Katz have made memorable landscape paintings — albeit under the sign of photography in Richter's case, abstraction in Katz's, and therefore ostensibly evading the charge of anachronism.

I've crossed my share of streets hand - in - hand with little old ladies and vacated countless seats on sardine - stuffed subway cars but something about watching counsel be called in order of their year of call smacks of anachronism and inefficiency.

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.

The master / servant relationship you refer to is somewhat of an anachronism.

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I'm an anachronism — an old fuddy duddy who is out of step with the march of history.

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.

I'm fond of saying,» We have a choice... theological history or historical theology»... and becuz I lean toward the latter, biblical anachronisms (belonging to another time) aren't on my wish list.

Although he often expressed this vision obliquely, he was relentless in his criticism of those who despised faith as an anachronism: «I am not afraid to say that a devout and God - fearing man is superior as a human specimen to a restless mocker who is glad to style himself an «intellectual,» proud of his cleverness in using ideas which he claims as his own though he acquired them in a pawnshop in exchange for simplicity of heart....

6) «It is often asserted that the mention of camels and of their use is an anachronism in Genesis.

It's a sign of how thoroughly the sexual revolution has managed to flip moral values, to turn what was once an ideal into a misbegotten anachronism.

The overt artifice of Maine's verbal construction» its reverse wind - up, verbal anachronisms, internal echoes and symmetries» suggests order and intention, but the story itself speaks of missteps, loss, and regret: the inescapable product of human will and the heritage, Maine implies, of our exiled state.

That interpretation is an anachronism; the passage really represents tribal justice, in accordance with which the sin of one involves in guilt and penalty the entire kinship - group to which the wrongdoer belongs.

Yes, the text of the First Amendment refers specifically to religion, they concede, but that's an anachronism.

And this is only to illustrate the relatively common occurrence of incongruity, anachronism, exaggeration and discrepancy in the patriarchal stories.

If the South is open to the charge (in a James Sellers phrase) of having squandered most of its psychic energy on the anachronism of segregation (and slavery before that), the North may be accused of having misdirected many of its attitudes toward the benightedness and inferiority of southerners and southern ways.

If we're reading Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, on the other hand, we soon recognize that Twain is having all sorts of fun with deliberate anachronisms, and we don't expect any sort of historical accuracy.

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.

In that history of the liberal mind Jonathan Edwards is described as the great «anachronism.»

The authorization of photocopies in 1904 seems to be an anachronism, unless the author meant that they took pictures of the pages of the book and developed them.

There may be apparent anachronisms in certain aspects of the Book of Mormon, but the same could also be said of any book of scripture and many old science books as well.

It may be an anachronism to call Oscar Wilde «gay,» for example, but what he was nevertheless seems to have been a different instance of that something of which «gay» is the contemporary instance.

The givenness of the barrier between time now and time then yields for us banalities about anachronism, on the one side, and imposes upon us the requirement of mediating between historical fact and religious truth, on the other.

Scripture has many authors, it makes use of many sources, and it is written — if we may be excused an unhelpful anachronism — in various genres.

It is, of course, an anachronism that our suffering crucifixes are now covered during Passiontide!