It's an anachronistic idea.
"It is a crazy, anachronistic idea.
Then what is it about "Hallelujah, Baby!", circa 2004, that makes it feel stolidly grounded in a bland and anachronistic 1967 mind-set?
The Cuba skeptics claim that Obama's opening did little to change the behavior of the oppressive Cuban regime, but their critics argue that progress would be slow and fitful and that the U.S. hawks cling to an anachronistic Cold War mind-set.
And that is what the actors (possibly excepting Adrien Brody, beanpole skinny and with a sure sense of what the script requires) brought to a presentation that was graphic, theatrical and oddly anachronistic in references that called to mind the doomed Austro-Hungarian empire as evoked in the best seller "The Hare With Amber Eyes".
But it is legitimate to question the appetite of both the Qataris and football's ruling body to bring any substantive changes, given that the Gulf state operates a system of kefala under which workers are tied to their employers, a form of feudalism that was anachronistic in the 18th century, never mind the 21st.
The anachronistic, subtle discomfort plays on the mind more and has undoubtedly led to a demographic of '90s kids who never learned to swim.
The anachronistic, subtle discomfort plays on the mind more and has undoubtedly led to a demographic of 90s kids who never learned to swim.
Nor is this the only place where Lash's anachronistic projection of current doctrine into the minds of nineteenth-century politicians and jurists causes him problems.
In his mind, the Big Three has been anachronistic, and entrusting them with an eleven-digit taxpayer loan would be foolish.
As Howard Gardner writes in his book, The Unschooled Mind: "As institutions, schools have become increasingly anachronistic, while museums have retained the potential to engage students, to teach them, to stimulate their understanding, and, most important, to help them assume responsibility for their own future learning".
