anachronism
مفارقة تأريخية
definition
noun
everything was as it would have appeared in centuries past apart from one anachronism, a bright yellow construction crane
a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.
translation of 'anachronism'
noun
مفارقة تأريخية,
حدث فى غير زمانه الصحيح
example
Usually you will find me with my head in a book muttering at the unreality and 'anachronism' in some flouncy, Austen thing.
Some might object that to push a modern idea such as ‘international system’ back into the past is to commit 'anachronism' .
In the course of discussing this last category, he directly engaged the topic of 'anachronism' .
This awkward 'anachronism' came about when a couple of hundred prefabricated bungalows, built to house workers on an irrigation project in the 1960s, fell into disuse.
In a world hurtling into a space-age, perhaps we need a bit of 'anachronism' , a place that exudes such history.
It's littered with 'anachronism' and it borders on profane ideas riddled as they are with holes.
the town is a throwback to medieval times, an 'anachronism' that has survived the passing years
It could help to deflect the usual charges of 'anachronism' and unfamiliarity with the period.
it is 'anachronism' to suppose that the official morality of the age was mere window dressing
I delivered a paper on 'anachronism' and identification in Aristotle and Freud a million years ago at a conference in New York.
It is another 'anachronism' to think that the author of his plays must have been a nobleman.
The claim put forward here is that all these kinds of 'anachronism' , good and bad, were grounded in a common way of thinking about artifacts and have to be dealt with together.
There is a major sin in history writing, that of 'anachronism' .
The problem here - as with so much popular and scholarly debate on his work - is one of conceptual 'anachronism' .
He must also ask this question to avoid the error of 'anachronism' (or ‘presentism’ as some historians call it).
Within the substitutional mode, 'anachronism' was neither an aberration nor a mere rhetorical device, but a structural condition of artifacts.
The principal themes of his fiction writing have been vampires, revenants, and creative 'anachronism' .
everything was as it would have appeared in centuries past apart from one 'anachronism', a bright yellow construction crane
The pejorative charge of 'anachronism' as the inadmissible confusion of periods or eras presupposes that the accuser knows what the correct time of history is.
Thus the preface to the text informs us that to avoid 'anachronism' , ‘the entomology [sic] of the slang’ was carefully checked.
Instead, he decided that 'anachronism' would be a major theme and encouraged the actors to avoid affecting British accents.
It's difficult to tell when this 'anachronism' is deliberate, and when it is merely a lack of writerly control.
But if these historic 'anachronisms' are to survive beyond the very short term they must quickly find a social role and shed the haughty isolationism which has shielded them from commercial realities.
Furthermore, the presence of bizarre 'anachronisms' undermines the historical value of the picture.
The filmmaker has to create a period ambience and avoid 'anachronisms' .
After a day spent in dress rehearsal for a war that doesn't seem to be happening, the boys head to the local dance club looking like ludicrous 'anachronisms' in their white Foreign Legion caps.
So why do we continue to limit ourselves to an 'anachronistic' , outdated, Homeric image of a war fighter?
They're not 'anachronistically' trying to make the perfect old-fashioned pop song.
The copyright laws are out-dated, 'anachronistic' , and need to be re-done or thrown out.
The organizations that control these networks are limping 'anachronisms' that are constrained by the expense and physical necessity of using wires to build their networks.
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