Sentence examples for increasingly anachronistic from inspiring English sources

It looks not just corrupt but increasingly anachronistic.

Since that time, of course, the bar has looked increasingly anachronistic.

For an economy that has grown as large and complex as China, quantitative tools are increasingly anachronistic.

The old ideological bunkers have collapsed in the electorate and their survival in the Commons was increasingly anachronistic.

With Israel and South Africa allowing him to visit in recent years, Britain's ban has looked increasingly anachronistic.

Nationality is an increasingly anachronistic distinction in a sports world in which more porous borders have blurred identities.

But after Sargent's death, his realism was viewed increasingly as anachronistic and facile, the work of a society painter, a careerist happy to pander to aristocratic privilege.

With more than 75,000 poets in the United States alone, and more than 20,000 books of poetry published in America each decade, lists of "top poets" have increasingly become anachronistic.

The hallowed fairways of Augusta National, the home of golf's annual Masters tournament, are being opened up to women for the first time, ending an increasingly controversial and anachronistic ban on female membership which had survived for 80 years.

And Nielsen's main measuring system, still largely based on family television watching behavior that prevailed 15 years ago, before the age of cable and the Internet, is increasingly viewed as anachronistic.

By the time of Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful, Hughes had left the nuances of our world behind entirely, taking refuge in a series of increasingly crude and anachronistic Hollywood cliches about American class resentments, as if Winnetka had been picked up and dropped next to a Pennsylvania steel town.