It was an anachronistic reference at a time when the state seems to have put on a fresh face.
Peter F. Vallone, the former Council speaker, recalls that in 1990, legislation was drafted to remove all anachronistic references to "the board" and replace them with "the Council" or another relevant agency or body.
This anachronistic reference to the Cumans suggests that she was of Khazar, Pecheneg or Volga Bulgarian origin.
He explains tyranny elsewhere either as resulting from splits within oligarchies or by an anachronistic 4th-century reference to demagogic leadership, which, when combined with generalship, is liable to turn into tyranny (there he is surely thinking above all of Dionysius I of Syracuse).
Her mother, Valerie, was a dress designer and her father, Mark, was, to borrow the delightfully anachronistic Daily Mail phrase used in one of their several profiles of Plum, an "old Etonian roué", a reference to his youthful friendship with Lord Lucan and various brushes with the law; he spent some time in prison in Brixton, awaiting extradition on fraud charges.
A song entitled "Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow" mentions Matthew, Mark, Mary, and the Lord, so when the narrator asks someone to "put down that telephone" it sounds comically anachronistic; there are very few contemporary rockers who can't pull off a reference to a phone call, but somehow Cave has managed to put himself in that select group.
(Despite an upsurge in toll roads, this is almost the only reference that dates Juster's fantasy, an anachronistic gateway to another world). He emerges into a landscape of words and numbers, caught between wisdom and ignorance.
If "turned on" sounds like an anachronistic phrase to apply to an 18th-century artist, consider the paintings.
This was seen as the end of an era, the relegation of an anachronistic institution to the scrapheap of history.
It's an anachronistic program to say the least".
