anachronism
കഥാപാത്രത്തിലൂടെ
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.
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It's littered with 'anachronism' and it borders on profane ideas riddled as they are with holes.
It could help to deflect the usual charges of 'anachronism' and unfamiliarity with the period.
The problem here - as with so much popular and scholarly debate on his work - is one of conceptual 'anachronism' .
Usually you will find me with my head in a book muttering at the unreality and 'anachronism' in some flouncy, Austen thing.
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.
Thus the preface to the text informs us that to avoid 'anachronism' , ‘the entomology [sic] of the slang’ was carefully checked.
The principal themes of his fiction writing have been vampires, revenants, and creative 'anachronism' .
It's difficult to tell when this 'anachronism' is deliberate, and when it is merely a lack of writerly control.
Instead, he decided that 'anachronism' would be a major theme and encouraged the actors to avoid affecting British accents.
Within the substitutional mode, 'anachronism' was neither an aberration nor a mere rhetorical device, but a structural condition of artifacts.
the town is a throwback to medieval times, an 'anachronism' that has survived the passing years
I delivered a paper on 'anachronism' and identification in Aristotle and Freud a million years ago at a conference in New York.
In the course of discussing this last category, he directly engaged the topic of 'anachronism' .
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.
There is a major sin in history writing, that of 'anachronism' .
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.
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.
He must also ask this question to avoid the error of 'anachronism' (or ‘presentism’ as some historians call it).
everything was as it would have appeared in centuries past apart from one 'anachronism', a bright yellow construction crane
Some might object that to push a modern idea such as ‘international system’ back into the past is to commit 'anachronism' .
So why do we continue to limit ourselves to an 'anachronistic' , outdated, Homeric image of a war fighter?
The 'anachronistic' law provided a certain quaint charm, but it meant that restaurants simply could not compete.
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.
The world tends to look at such women today as anti-feminist 'anachronisms' , naïve traitors to the cause of womankind, setting back the march of the liberated by their very existence.
It's the knee-jerk caricature of American generals as intolerant 'anachronisms' .
It's cautious about its voice (although there are occasional weird stylistic 'anachronisms' , which may be deliberate, but also, rather depressingly, may not be), anxious not to overstep its own mark.
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.
They're not 'anachronistically' trying to make the perfect old-fashioned pop song.
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