They're stingy, self-obsessed dinosaurs, clinging to obsolete visions of life not as it actually was, but as they choose to remember it.
Asserting that Mr. Mazzocchi and his party have an obsolete leftist vision, many critics say it is not surprising that the party has grown slowly and gained little traction.
We are building a new city, not preserving the desiccated, obsolete 1950s vision of Los Angeles held by an ever shrinking minority of Angelenos.
Reagan spoke of his preference for protecting lives rather than avenging them, and of the possibility of rendering nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete," but the vision could not be turned into reality.
A popular movement, headed by the ex-footballer Romário, now a member of parliament, is trying to restructure the fundamentals of Brazilian football – for a long time damaged by corrupt bosses and an obsolete technical and administrative vision.
Posters advertise SanSan, a futurist vision as obsolete and never-was as the concrete husk of Arcosanti.
Our greatest resource is our humaneness: The goodwill of people toward one another, the love of people for the land, and the inventiveness of people facing common problems--these are the attributes of hearts and minds already reaching across borders and redefining humanity beyond the shattered vision of obsolete governments.
The third is to create a new vision that renders the old problem obsolete.
In a hundred years, synesthetic start-ups like Booktrack could be as obsolete and forgotten as "Aromarama" and "Smell-o-vision" - technologies that piped odors into 1960s-era movie theaters so that viewers could smell what was on screen.
