Poundings of less romantic or Romantic variety are felt in two poems that expose an anachronistic thing for smutty calling cards left in phone boxes.
That line may be the second-most anachronistic-sounding thing in the movie (after the notion that, for a single, working mother and her child living in a two-bedroom apartment on Central Park West, real-estate salvation comes in the form of a small Cape Cod house on Long Island).
In a room filled with a large number of parents and expectant parents, I felt like the only person in the world not already familiar with the work of Mo Willems — the prolific children's author, illustrator, cartoonist, and former Sesame Street writer who has won Emmy and Caldecott awards and has been praised for, among other things, his "anachronistic appeal".
Even though Zuma's choices and culture could be seen as anachronistic, there are some things that still happen to women around the world that just should not still be happening.
(The word "redskin" has a contested etymology, but a plain history as a slur. And the team's stoic logo is the thing of anachronistic, if possibly well-meaning, caricature).
The whole thing feels glaringly anachronistic in an age when feminism was on the rise.
Silly science, nonsense sentences in statistic books and anachronistic history texts are one thing, but some of the textbooks published and used by thousands of American schools are flat out racist and offensive.
One thing that I find increasingly anachronistic on the Web is the stubborn persistence of the PDF download.
"One day I happened upon a crowning of a carnival queen by accident, and it seemed so unusual and anachronistic I was surprised that such a thing still existed," he says.
"One day I happened on a crowning of a carnival Queen by accident, and it seemed so unusual and anachronistic I was surprised that such a thing still existed," he says.
