Sentence examples for bit anachronistic from inspiring English sources

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In the end, "Glass Houses" seems a bit anachronistic -- a relic of the Gingrich era, when ethics battles really raged.

You do wonder if the Royal Family isn't a bit anachronistic, but it works well enough, so we might as well leave it.

"People used to have a separate digital strategy, which is a bit anachronistic now, and it's the same with content marketing.

Mr. Berlusconi's passionate anti-communism, a bit anachronistic now that the cold war is over, is more personal than any American president's.

Ms. Freestone, who plans to go to graduate school in New Jersey after Katharine House closes, said that certain rules at the residence were a bit anachronistic.

His use of a phrase made notorious during Vietnam (and revived, often without irony, in more recent wars) may sound a bit anachronistic and overly pointed, but it also reinforces a disconcerting parallel.

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Curiously, the drawings of the humans, both parents and professionals and their settings, have been given the same sort of stiff, retro feel -- perhaps to make those 65-million-year-old reptiles seem a bit less anachronistic.

With her production of George Farquhar's "Constant Couple," written in 1699, at the Pearl Theater Company, Jean Randich has the sense to leave a good play largely alone and the wit to establish small links to the present: bits of anachronistic costuming (a pair of defiantly 21st-century shoes) or speech inflection.

If these songs and re-enacted film bits seem anachronistic choices for a movie set in the 1980s (the soundtrack includes period rock by the Clash and other groups), without its breezy horseplay "The History Boys" would come across as a drier, English answer to "Dead Poets Society".

That anachronistic bit of provincial red tape was worth it.

With so many blog reviews out there all ready, the press night seems like a bit of an anachronistic ritual.

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