anachronism

Example Sentences

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The awful costumes, the awful set, the dreary anachronisms melted away.

From Los Angeles Times

“Artist attributions also need to consider social and historical factors,” such as workshop practices or anachronisms in the use of materials, and the AI can’t do that, he says.

From Scientific American

But the accompaniment, from her longtime keyboardist and collaborator Sullivan Fortner, is on synthesizers, savoring the anachronism.

From New York Times

I love the use of contemporary music and anachronism and the ending.

From Salon

Desplat, whose suggestion it was to use only wood instruments in the score, says they wanted to avoid anachronism, with nothing like today’s pop music to score the tale.

From Los Angeles Times