Sentence examples for being anachronistic from inspiring English sources

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But I don't see that as being anachronistic to the period".

(Personally I feel that the analogy with 16th-century Europe is flawed. It misrepresents the nature of hierarchy in Islam, as well as being anachronistic).

A federal judge said on Thursday that Viacom was being "anachronistic" in the copyright infringement lawsuit it filed against YouTube for using unauthorized clips of shows like "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and "South Park".

The video, uploaded to YouTube by the BBC last December, had been criticised by some viewers as being anachronistic, but Beard wrote on Twitter that "there's plenty of firm evidence for ethnic diversity in Roman Britain".

Taking James Madison of the Class of 1771 as my model, I suggested that the qualities of mind and character that the liberal arts engender are critical to personal success and civic vitality; indeed, far from being anachronistic, a liberal education should be viewed as a "vaccine against early obsolescence". Here are excerpts from my remarks.

Told the licence fee is regressive and anachronistic, Lord Hall said: "(Culture Secretary John Whittingdale's) own report published before the election said far from the licence fee being anachronistic it's actually got 10 years of life left in it at least".

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I was anachronistic.

But today, it's anachronistic.

"Straphangers" is anachronistic.

This is anachronistic.

O.K., you're anachronistic.

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