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  • Anachronism from a past era, somehow transported to 2004 and mysteriously alive.
  • They argue that p was quite careful in his use of yahweh in order to avoid anachronisms.
  • Peter watkins uses tv broadcasting, a deliberate anachronism, to stage his tale of the paris commune.
  • Anachronism in the 21st century.
  • Anachronism from a bygone age.
  • In many ways the order had become an anachronism.
  • I went into the film having resolved not to allow my enjoyment to be spoiled by any historical anachronisms i happened to spot.
  • Anachronism in a globalized society, and rights, not religion, should determine social conduct.
  • The story involves palpable anachronisms as johnson's only visit to glasgow was before hume's death.
  • Its lack of any dramatic reconstructions, meanwhile, renders it a complete anachronism.
  • Anachronism in an age so secular as ours.
  • Now we have here a patent anachronism which destroys the possibility that this book was really written by the apostle barnabas.
  • Much of the comedy revolved around such anachronisms, with the 18thcentury protagonists often using 20thcentury references and visited by modern-day concerns.
  • The lodge remained an anachronism, and was allowed to decline.
  • Maybe it's poetic justice, maybe creative anachronism, or maybe a circle of interpretation.
  • Taken from engravings, these images of monuments contain certain anachronisms.
  • I imagine the historians of the period, both social and military, will have found lots more glaring anachronisms.

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