Sentences with phrase «such anachronism»

Quite understandably, audiences were mystified by the appearance of helicopters and limos in 1850s Nicaragua, for two reasons: (1) Cox did not weave such anachronisms consistently through the first half of the film, and (2) he imbued the film with a solemn tone that could not accommodate such surprises.

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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.

Pitchers such as Brown, 24 - game winner John Smoltz of the Braves, 265 2/3 - inning workhorse Pat Hentgen of the Toronto Blue Jays and Randy Johnson of the Seattle Mariners, who has gone 55 - 16 since 1993 and appears recovered from back surgery performed last September, are anachronisms.

In such company, the soggy Europhilia of a 74 - year - old Kenneth Clarke is an anachronism.

«The controversies surrounding some of the recent gubernatorial appointments to vacant Senate seats make it painfully clear that such appointments are an anachronism that must end,» he said in a press release.

They say such job protections are harmful to students and are merely an 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.

She looks for factual errors, including geographical goofs or anachronisms, such as a song that didn't come out until a decade after your characters go to the prom.

Membership in special - interest club - type organizations such as Mensa or the Society for Creative 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.

Specific Objects without Specific Form (2010 - 2011) and Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955 - 1972, co-curated with Joanna Mytkowska (2011 - 2012), in addition to organizing solo exhibitions with artists such as Klara Lidén, Lorna Macintyre, Melvin Moti, Tomo Savic - Gecan, and Tris Vonna - Michell, and group shows including The Other Tradition (2010), Anachronism (2007), and Let Everything Be Temporary (2007).

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.

But in these canvases and in other works — such as his series of landscapes freighted with Barbizon - school scrupulousness — the artist has sought modes of representing that go beyond the pursuit of likeness, gesturing toward abstraction, anamorphosis, and anachronism.

Through complex schemes, marked by several layers of symbolism, themes such as body image, sexuality, social turmoils and political convulsions are communicated in a vertiginous speed, forming a whirlwind of multiple anachronisms which combine autobiographical scenes from the artist's domestic life and public events belonging Brazilian history — both those stamped in the country's social imaginary as well as those programmatically neglected from it.

Pleasant pastimes such as skiing on real snow in the mountains of Norway may just slip away as some anachronism of the past, a harbinger to another time when nights were blissfully cold, lakes were frozen, and science teachers were well read.