Sentence examples for anachronistic language from inspiring English sources

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Lenkiewicz attempts to enliven it with anachronistic language.

But the author's anachronistic language, as translated by Lee Chadeayne, can make your ears bleed.

The cheerfully anachronistic language (and music) of "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" and the stylized structure and freewheeling jesting of "Free Man" serve similar functions.

But Mr. Grandage sensed that the strength of "The Chalk Garden" was less in its story than in its seemingly anachronistic language.

He revised Prince Otto, worked on A Child's Garden of Verses (first called Penny Whistles), and began The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (1888), a historical adventure tale deliberately written in anachronistic language.

When birth control is uncoupled from the religious-freedom argument — and when conservatives start talking in ugly ad-hominem language, like Limbaugh's, or clueless anachronistic language, like Santorum's — women, in particular, do not respond well.

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We don't use anachronistic words or references to our own contemporary culture in the way that Benedict Andrews did with such joy in Three Sisters, but we have tried to make a language that is simple and clear and economic.

Meloy and Co. still have that anachronistic vibe with language that feels almost otherworldly at times: the towering plinth, wreath of trillium, dowager empress, yellow bonnets, neck napes, a panoply of song.

"By removing anachronistic value laden language and ensuring equality in the age of consent, the bill will not only improve sexual health outcomes, but also mental health outcomes for young Queenslanders," he said.

True, not all the jarring language is simply anachronistic, a post-modern spice.

In a section on the pirate attacks, the language strains with anachronistic journalese to draw parallels with the war on terror.

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