Had the public not aroused itself into aggression, we would now be looking toward construction of an anachronistic, theme-park version of Rockefeller Center, next to the one we've already got across the road in Battery Park City.
It's an anachronistic idea.
"It is a crazy, anachronistic idea.
The jokes are tired, even when the references are to nearly current events, and the whole project, down to its perky sitcom theme music, feels anachronistic.
But if "Potiche," set in 1977, is sweet and funny, with some unthreatening women's lib themes, plus famous (anachronistic) Sarkozy lines, it's also something of a one-joke story.
Swathed in anachronistic silliness — and blessed with a bouncy theme song by the Broadway tunesmiths Charles Strouse and Lee Adams — it lasted only 13 episodes on ABC in late 1975.
Revelry is the main point, and though the theme is Elizabethan, the execution is vigorously anachronistic.
The very idea of domestic servants is already anachronistic.
Essayists have generalized about resentments dating back to the 8th century, an anachronistic discomfort with modernity, or the excesses of Islamist politics, among other familiar themes.
A recurring, brilliantly counterintuitive theme is that Labour and Tory activists, far from being ever more deluded and anachronistic as the memberships of their parties have dwindled, have actually gained political leverage.
