Sentence examples for would be anachronistic from inspiring English sources

Recent history suggests that it would be anachronistic for Mr. Kerry to try to capture a single state or find an ideological opposite in a vice president.

I think this is a style and it does relate to our culture and I think it would be anachronistic maybe to pretend to be involved with subtle changes and modulations and things like that because it's really not part of America".

It would be anachronistic to read ideas about consciousness from today back into the ancient literature.

It would be anachronistic to suppose that Locke is using the word "determine" as we do today when we discuss causal determinism (see http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/determinism-causal/).

Her hairstyle, the frames of her glasses, the cut of her coat, all would be anachronistic, and therefore quite inadmissible in the relentlessly up-to-date realm of the living.

Although it would be anachronistic to saddle him with any specific contemporary account of the emotions, it seems clear that his underlying view is close to what Western psychologists and philosopher call an "appraisal theory" of emotions, according to which emotions are motivational states closely connected to evaluations of situations (de Sousa 2014, Section 4).

The dialogue is uniformly archaic, leaden almost ("I wish it right enough, sir," etc), as if a distinctive voice would itself be anachronistic.

It would, however, be anachronistic to refer to a "Northumbrian" people or identity at this early stage, when the Bernicians and the Deirans were still clearly distinct peoples.

Some version of a Wiltshire farm building would be plain anachronistic, and it's a matter of gratitude that the temptation was resisted to create pseudo-barrows, to half-bury the building in the style of a Neolithic nobleman.

In the broadest sense, then, Ficino's "academy" was not a specific place but a mindset; and as tempting as it is for moderns to fit Ficino into a Platonic "system" of philosophy (seen as in stark contrast to what is assumed to be an equally unitary "Aristotelian" system), doing so would be deeply anachronistic.

It would be shocking, anachronistic, and blatantly false.