Sentence examples for anachronistic question from inspiring English sources

However, medieval artists traveled far afield and it may never be possible to say for sure whether the sculptor who carved the Mayer/Maillant torso was French or Swiss — an anachronistic question regarding the Gothic age, when religion defined identity far more than nation, a concept from later times.

The temptation to make anachronistic judgements and ask anachronistic questions is hard to avoid.

Now, 63 years since the partition plan, it seems anachronistic to question the state's Jewish identity.

The authors call such an Atlantic focus "anachronistic", and question whether it is wise to assume that America will always be there to step in.

A thought: voters should not take out their justified anger and frustration with government by opposing, on principle, the legitimate, but limited, proposals that are being put before them, anachronistic as Question 1 may be.

If, during any other moment of your waking existence, you were presented with a print-out of a meerkat in a Christmas hat, a euphemistic joke about dicks or a black-and-white photo of someone from the 50s saying something anachronistic, you'd question, at best, the giver's sanity, at worst, their intelligence, and slowly edge away, not turning your back until you'd left the building.

Others may question Rolfe's anachronistic use of the a certain term (Let's just say that it's the extended form of "WTF").... although the audience didn't seem to mind at all.

Ross has made his book into a sort of quest, for it and for a good deal else: "So I would look for the sword, but more than that, I would search for answers to a large and multiplying number of questions posed by this man's anachronistic death".

So for the next count, in 2020, the Census Bureau is considering collapsing the two ethnicity and race questions into a single "race or origin" inquiry (it may also drop the anachronistic term "Negro").

Oddly, the court also found that Iceland had not breached an obligation not to discriminate between domestic and foreign depositors, even though it made only the domestic ones whole.The questions addressed by the court may seem anachronistic: European law on deposit protection has been extensively rewritten since the crisis.

The exhibition makes abundantly clear to anyone who looks that portrait sculpture, a sadly anachronistic art, at its liveliest raised the most basic human question: who are we?