| This method of one-sidedly and ahistorically picking and choosing facts to fit a pre-determined political conclusion is as unscientific as it is intellectually bankrupt. |
| He bolsters his argument with quotations about rivers, rings, and trees drawn randomly and ahistorically from different writers. |
| Moreover, against the view that psychoanalysis treats desire and psychic life ahistorically, Belsey argues that part of her own project is to show that desire has a history. |
| Today's audiences can hardly appreciate the ahistorically high standards to which they have grown accustomed. |
| To insist now, with blinkered nostalgia, on the value of judgment and individual subjectivity is to extend these terms ahistorically in a way that strikes me as untenable. |
