| It's the knee-jerk caricature of American generals as intolerant anachronisms. |
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| Still, much of that probably stems from the dialogue, which is full of jarring shifts between period-speak and anachronisms. |
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| The anachronisms remind us, pointlessly, that the play is a modern construct. |
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| The gentleness of English civilisation is mixed up with barbarities and anachronisms. |
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| So many spoofs today make only token gestures towards the genre they're aping, then look for laughs in deliberate anachronisms. |
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| In the smaller courts in particular, where the painter was free to indulge his fights of fancy, anachronisms and incongruities abound. |
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| He falters, stammers, falls back on grand anachronisms and speaks with a thick accent. |
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| I loved being around him, I loved feeling his presence in the house, I loved his self-assured nature, and his quirky anachronisms. |
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| Decades ago, lighthouses evolved into scenic anachronisms as the U.S. Coast Guard converted the sites still in use into fully automated navaids. |
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| Furthermore, the presence of bizarre anachronisms undermines the historical value of the picture. |
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| Her translations of the new essays read well, though there are some odd anachronisms like 'trendy' and 'dumbed down' and a slightly over-fastidious application of commas. |
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| All modern radiators have been removed and replaced, while fresh paint has been applied to mask any anachronisms which do not fit in with the historic surroundings. |
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| Such anachronisms and infringements of the fundamental principles of federalism must be completely and unconditionally set aside. |
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| They are also a sign of various anachronisms in the functioning of our towns and our justice and police apparatus. |
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| We can no longer afford to close our eyes to the anomalies and anachronisms that ultimately penalize the beneficiaries of our programs. |
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| It was a cartoon and filled with anachronisms that the boys considered hilarious. |
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| With respect to anachronisms in the substantive law, our path is not so clear. |
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| Are these terms of Treaty Six mere anachronisms designed to meet a need in the nineteenth century, but of no continuing significance? |
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| The organizations that control these networks are limping anachronisms that are constrained by the expense and physical necessity of using wires to build their networks. |
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| The film wears all its anachronisms on its sleeve and evades any of the empty solemnity that is often associated with tales of love and sword fights. |
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| It is also known as a go-to place for film and theatre directors looking for expert advice to help them avoid anachronisms in their work. |
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| To chastise the director for fictions and anachronisms may be to miss the point. |
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| The filmmaker has to create a period ambience and avoid anachronisms. |
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| But such anachronisms have never been found. Then there is the evidence written on the bodies of all living things. |
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| He included many anachronisms in his work, such as tribunes having power that they did not have until much later. |
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| Eyre's versions of Hedda and Ghosts were notable for their fleetness – direct and crisp, the idiom freshly clear to the modern ear, while avoiding any anachronisms that would jar with their late 19th-century milieu. |
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| Skilfully handling puns and anachronisms, Max Linder offers a hilarious parody of the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas and the role of D'Artagnan already taken on by Douglas Fairbanks. |
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| Like all such cults, it is riddled with anachronisms and distortions. |
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| By contrast, universities are granted the right to award degrees in perpetuity by the Privy Council, one of those hoary old anachronisms that litter Britain's unwritten constitution. |
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| They are still there against Germany and Japan but they are anachronisms. |
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| We are left with criticism of a few of this EDF process's anachronisms, with which we have long been acquainted and which ought to be done away with as quickly as possible. |
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| Thus, even the Open Skies model preserves many of the anachronisms that distinguish the international air transport sector from most other globalized industries. |
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| For example, setting up computerized editorial systems and web sites would be of little benefit in rural communities where electrical power is intermittent, or where computers would be anachronisms. |
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| Much like in Tchiloli, there are anachronisms in the play: sentinels scrutinize the heavens with binoculars, should the admiral go for an air raid. |
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| Historical Reenactors will be particularly charmed by the quality of the site: the palisade encircling Fort Ingall allows the site to be completely isolated from the modern world and almost without anachronisms. |
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| He skilfully blends anachronisms and ancient pictorial techniques, thus offering creations to contemplate but also to decrypts as so many details subtly illustrating his allegorical vision of the world. |
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| Unless these allusions are just simple anachronisms, the roads referred to were probably at the time little more than levelled earthen tracks. |
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| Despite this, several critics picked up on anachronisms in the film, not least involving the two main stars. |
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| Ordinals for monarchs before the 13th century are anachronisms, as are also ordinals for almost all later medieval monarchs. |
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| Minor historical anachronisms such as this are present throughout Life on Mars. |
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| As the popularity of the series grew, the hunting of such anachronisms became a favourite pastime among Life on Mars fans. |
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| Outside Russia, the Cossacks tend to be viewed as cartoonish anachronisms, with their whips, papakha fur hats and horses. |
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| Moreover, 15 fevrier's modern dialogue, including plenty of joual, is one of several anachronisms that gives the picture raw immediacy and connects with its audience. |
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| While Gilson often makes passing references to anachronisms in neo-Scholastic uses of Aquinas, he rarely offers a detailed argument against these authors. |
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| In such a very chronological book, though, small anachronisms do obtrude. |
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| Anachronisms and nautical howlers bombard the reader like spindrift in a Force 10 gale. |
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