143 examples of anachronisms in sentences

These anachronisms on the part of the author, however, in no way affect the artistic merit of the work.

I don't like anachronisms.

As there seem to be in it some Anachronisms and Deviations from the ancient Orthography, I am not wholly satisfied myself that it is authentick, and not rather the Production of one of those Grecian Sophisters, who have imposed upon the World several spurious Works of this Nature.

Mr. Irvine's writings are literary anachronisms.

* ANACHRONISMS RESPECTING DR.

In justice to myself and the readers of the MIRROR, I must be allowed to offer a few apologetic remarks on the almost unpardonable anachronisms which I so inadvertently suffered to occur in my communication on the subject of Dr. Johnson's Residence in Bolt Court.

The circumstances, distorted by gross anachronisms, have been weaved into the delightful romance of "Kenilworth.

These new old villages often present some curious anachronisms.

When we have seized this point of view, we find his anachronisms highly laudable, and it is this very disregard of the outer raiment that renders his creations so vivid.

ERROR OF ARTISTS, (See ANACHRONISMS).

ERRORS OF AUTHORS, (See ANACHRONISMS.) AKENSIDE.

Anachronisms are scattered through it with a profusion which could only be the result of entire indifference,in fact, of an absolute want of thought on the subject.

He censures decidedly the antiquated language, irregular plots, and anachronisms of Shakespeare and Fletcher; but his main strength seems directed against Jonson.

" Ortiz thinks it necessary to enter into a formal and lengthened refutation of the angel's visit, and to prove, from the style, the anachronisms, and other circumstances, that it must be a forgery.

He was his uncle's heir, and until such time as money and other anachronisms of the present social system were done away with, there was no use throwing a fortune into the gutter, even if by your own efforts you were making an income just sufficiently large to keep up with the increased cost of living.

But there is this difference between the Hebrew and the masonic traditions, that the Talmudic scholar recited them as truthful histories, and swallowed, in one gulp of faith, all their impossibilities and anachronisms, while the masonic student has received them as allegories, whose value is not in the facts, but in the sentiments which they convey.

The proofs of his ignorance, on which the greatest stress is laid, are a few geographical blunders and anachronisms.

I will undertake to prove that Shakespeare's anachronisms are, for the most part, committed of set purpose and deliberately.

To that simple way of thinking, which is merely attentive to the inward truth of the composition, without stumbling at anachronisms or other external inconsistencies, we cannot, alas!

It was great fun to hear him criticising the impossibilities of a battle-piece Blenheim, I thinkthe anachronisms of the firearms and uniforms, and the want of discipline around Marlborough, who would never have won a battle at that rate.

In the Légende, no doubt, are a thousand extravagances, bizarreries, anachronisms, and negligences.

It has always wrought evil as well as good on civilization Like all other anachronisms, its original helpfulness to progress has now become a hindrance.

The modern finger-glass and rose-water dish, which are an incidence of every entertainment of pretension, and in higher society as much a parcel of the dinner-table as knives and forks, are, from a mediaeval standpoint, luxurious anachronisms.

Well, Charley did go to Eton, and if Eton did not make him a great actor, it opened his eyes to the absurd anachronisms in costumes and accessories which prevailed on the stage at that period, and when he undertook the management of the Princess's Theater, he turned his classical education to account.

But, in the plays of the final period, all this has changed; we are no longer in the real world, but in a world of enchantment, of mystery, of wonder, a world of shifting visions, a world of hopeless anachronisms, a world in which anything may happen next.

143 examples of  anachronisms  in sentences