Sentence examples for anachronistical from inspiring English sources

The old chestnut about Nato's purpose voiced by the first Nato secretary general, Lord Ismay – "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in" – looked hopelessly anachronistic.

We don't need to sustain clowning if clowning has become anachronistic.

The idea of a British army ever again confronting a national army of a hostile state, or groups of insurgents, in the open is anachronistic.

Gunning rejected the idea that his Bowland shoot was an anachronistic country pursuit for the upper classes.

This kneejerk diplomatic kowtowing, embedded in the thinking of a cold war, 1980s world that no longer exists, looks increasingly anachronistic and warrants close scrutiny.

Even more effectively for the Lib Dem claim, Clegg can point to the trade-off with the Tories' anachronistic enthusiasm for a married couples tax allowance.

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.

It's true that some conservatives like Michaelia Cash think the fight for women's equality is over and the concept of feminism is anachronistic.

It's a true representation of the portion of British youth whose parents force them to read print newspapers – and possibly also force them to take part in other anachronistic endeavours like wearing zoot suits and rationing eggs – and therefore have the least amount of fun.

Some of you will doubtless declare the latter is totally anachronistic.

Its attempt at provocative anachronistic dialogue – basically, swearing – will do little to scandalise the 18th-century historian, for contrary to popular opinion swearing was not invented by the Sex Pistols in 1976.