Sentence examples for anachronistic interpretation from inspiring English sources

A man who called for a return to the values and social systems of the seventh century as a means of restoring a just order in today's world, he justified the use of advanced modern technology to kill thousands through a rigorous and anachronistic interpretation of Islamic law.

The colonists drew on English law books, leading them to an anachronistic interpretation of Magna Carta, believing that it guaranteed trial by jury and habeas corpus.

(Business suits and camouflage gear have become de rigueur in Shakespeare history plays.) The implicit notion here, as is often the case with such deliberately anachronistic interpretations, is that the politics of yore was politics as usual, a dirty business that changes little over the centuries.

There are alternative (and, arguably, less anachronistic) interpretations of Aristotle's theory that Paivio might well find less objectionable (see, e.g., Kosman, 1975; Modrak, 1987).

Some of the interpretations are anachronistic impositions on the ancient world; ancient testimony, for example, gives no support to commercial or mercantile explanations.

In their different ways all three books list and analyse the errors of interpretation, factual errors, anachronistic readings, sophistries, inconsistencies, and calculated misquotations that are to be found in Edward Said's Orientalism.

The first 9/11 was just one act in a drama which began in 1962, when John F. Kennedy shifted the mission of the Latin American military from "hemispheric defense" -- an anachronistic holdover from World War II -- to "internal security," a concept with a chilling interpretation in U.S.-dominated Latin American circles.

Among his first, and most memorable, productions were disarmingly anachronistic versions of Manon Lescaut and Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, as well as very personal interpretations of Pinocchio and Hamlet, a text that he repeatedly returned to.

So many interpretations of the canon now are tricked out in the condescending, high-concept garb of anachronistic settings, with comedy that exaggerates the (yuck, yuck) bawdy parts with broad, illustrative gestures.

In the days of digital cameras and camera phones, quick-developing Polaroid pictures may seem anachronistic, but not so in St Barth, where the iconic camera format has taken centre stage in a pop-art interpretation of a garden villa.

The interpretation of the Cylinder as a "charter of human rights" has been described by some historians as "rather anachronistic" and tendentious.