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
Some might object that to push a modern idea such as ‘international system’ back into the past is to commit 'anachronism' .
In a world hurtling into a space-age, perhaps we need a bit of 'anachronism' , a place that exudes such history.
it is 'anachronism' to suppose that the official morality of the age was mere window dressing
the town is a throwback to medieval times, an 'anachronism' that has survived the passing years
In the course of discussing this last category, he directly engaged the topic of 'anachronism' .
Instead, he decided that 'anachronism' would be a major theme and encouraged the actors to avoid affecting British accents.
Usually you will find me with my head in a book muttering at the unreality and 'anachronism' in some flouncy, Austen thing.
It could help to deflect the usual charges of 'anachronism' and unfamiliarity with the period.
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.
Within the substitutional mode, 'anachronism' was neither an aberration nor a mere rhetorical device, but a structural condition of artifacts.
Thus the preface to the text informs us that to avoid 'anachronism' , ‘the entomology [sic] of the slang’ was carefully checked.
There is a major sin in history writing, that of 'anachronism' .
The principal themes of his fiction writing have been vampires, revenants, and creative 'anachronism' .
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.
I delivered a paper on 'anachronism' and identification in Aristotle and Freud a million years ago at a conference in New York.
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
The problem here - as with so much popular and scholarly debate on his work - is one of conceptual 'anachronism' .
It's littered with 'anachronism' and it borders on profane ideas riddled as they are with holes.
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 another 'anachronism' to think that the author of his plays must have been a nobleman.
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.
It's very old fashioned, almost 'anachronistic' , and it puts you on guard.
With Montreal booming through the '60s, the narrow streets and old apartments - so coveted today - were considered 'anachronisms' and health hazards.
In the smaller courts in particular, where the painter was free to indulge his fights of fancy, 'anachronisms' and incongruities abound.
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.
A central problem of the book, however, one that dogs her work in general, is the sense that her approach is 'anachronistically' stranded on some distant critical shore.
The filmmaker has to create a period ambience and avoid 'anachronisms' .
All modern radiators have been removed and replaced, while fresh paint has been applied to mask any 'anachronisms' which do not fit in with the historic surroundings.
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