Sentence examples for if anachronistic from inspiring English sources

The tune is a fairly creditable (if anachronistic) imitation of a troubadour melody, worked out on a bassoon.

The climactic finale was a long time coming, but we were distracted, most of the time, by a handsome if anachronistic staging.

Between takes, audible through the actors' mics, is banter of often teeth-whitening coarseness, occasionally drifting into rousing if anachronistic renditions of Don't Let Go by En Vogue.

An old man tells the story of the life of the Buddha, from his royal childhood to his death, allowing the film-makers to juxtapose Orientalist fantasies alongside fascinating, if anachronistic, images of Rajasthan in the 20s.

Harder to stomach is the too-literal treatment of the accidental drownings of Duncan's children, as two limp little bodies are carried on stage, triggering an orgy of parental grief in a duet which draws on stricken postures from Picasso's Guernica (MacMillan's range of reference was always wide, if anachronistic).

The price of stability in Arab countries has often been iron-fisted rule and brutality of the sort on display today in the streets of Bahrain and Syria, but the region's traditions of tribal subsidies and balancing have also contributed to surprisingly durable, if anachronistic, monarchies, from Saudi Arabia to Jordan and Morocco.

It's plausible, if slightly anachronistic and wildly impractical.

The GT, with 412 horsepower, delivers an irresistible, if slightly anachronistic, sensation of "giddy, glorious, romping fun," Mr. Huffman writes.

Hampson's and Furlanetto's heartfelt performances — and a collection of gorgeous, if slightly anachronistic, sets and costumes — ameliorate the excesses of Verdi's convoluted plot; Fabio Luisi.

If this anachronistic marriage of sound and subject sounds a tad gimmicky, know that Les Freres Corbusier, the New York-based theater troupe for which Mr. Timbers is the artistic director, has a solid history of milking substance from stunts.

Moore leaves it open as to whether Clare — who for a period believed himself to be Lord Byron, and spent the final twenty-two years of his life in Northampton General Lunatic Asylum — is hallucinating, or if these anachronistic figures might be coeval in another dimension.