anachronism
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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.
example
There is a major sin in history writing, that of 'anachronism' .
He must also ask this question to avoid the error of 'anachronism' (or ‘presentism’ as some historians call it).
Some might object that to push a modern idea such as ‘international system’ back into the past is to commit 'anachronism' .
Instead, he decided that 'anachronism' would be a major theme and encouraged the actors to avoid affecting British accents.
the town is a throwback to medieval times, an 'anachronism' that has survived the passing years
everything was as it would have appeared in centuries past apart from one 'anachronism', a bright yellow construction crane
It's littered with 'anachronism' and it borders on profane ideas riddled as they are with holes.
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.
it is 'anachronism' to suppose that the official morality of the age was mere window dressing
It is another 'anachronism' to think that the author of his plays must have been a nobleman.
It could help to deflect the usual charges of 'anachronism' and unfamiliarity with the period.
The principal themes of his fiction writing have been vampires, revenants, and creative 'anachronism' .
Usually you will find me with my head in a book muttering at the unreality and 'anachronism' in some flouncy, Austen thing.
In a world hurtling into a space-age, perhaps we need a bit of 'anachronism' , a place that exudes such history.
The problem here - as with so much popular and scholarly debate on his work - is one of conceptual 'anachronism' .
Thus the preface to the text informs us that to avoid 'anachronism' , ‘the entomology [sic] of the slang’ was carefully checked.
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.
I delivered a paper on 'anachronism' and identification in Aristotle and Freud a million years ago at a conference in New York.
Within the substitutional mode, 'anachronism' was neither an aberration nor a mere rhetorical device, but a structural condition of artifacts.
It's difficult to tell when this 'anachronism' is deliberate, and when it is merely a lack of writerly control.
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.
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.
These groups would be at risk of becoming mere anecdotes; 'anachronisms' of a bygone time and a lifestyle that is passing.
The image shows that she was not always dressed 'anachronistically' , that she too invested her image with the current fashions.
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.
It's the knee-jerk caricature of American generals as intolerant 'anachronisms' .
In the age of the internet, to bodily drag yourself into offices that are fast becoming expensive 'anachronisms' does seem a little perverse, while the advantages of telecommuting are enormous.
The copyright laws are out-dated, 'anachronistic' , and need to be re-done or thrown out.
In the smaller courts in particular, where the painter was free to indulge his fights of fancy, 'anachronisms' and incongruities abound.
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