Noun, : Anachronies are either flashbacks or flashforwards. From Dictionary.com.
All your comments on non-WASPS are so anachronic is not even funny. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Bush on Immigration: Wherever The Political Winds Blow] Reference
The dressing of the black people is not only anachronic but also anastupid and no its not a word. From Wordnik.com. [“AFRICANS” AS PROPS FOR WHITE FEMININITY » Sociological Images] Reference
He said that, nevertheless, Washington ` ` runs the risk of isolating itself in its struggle to maintain a position that is increasingly incomprehensible and anachronic. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Interviewed by EL SOL DE MEXICO] Reference
I guess this maybe the first time in modern history a country is fighting all alone for it's democracy, surrounded by a group of marxist proto-dictators while the once Leader of The Free World stands aside the most primitive and anachronic ideologists. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Chavez is the white hope of the failed castrism anachronic and near death who feels that its continuation is impossible in the Island and that it is only possible through the Venezuelan president and the MVR, its extravagant, radical and heterogeneous political movement. From Wordnik.com. [03/27/2005 - 04/03/2005] Reference
Thus, the anachronic emotion of Miss ---- (on page 17) finds its parallel in. From Wordnik.com. [Old New England Traits] Reference
Better that it should not have consented to motion, and have held stubbornly to all ancestral ways, than have bred that anachronic spectre. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
However, some of its features are really anachronic, and the large number of features makes the documentation very cumbersome to work with. From Wordnik.com. [OSNews] Reference
They had no such feeling as we have in regard to the pasteboard kings and queens who strut their brief hour before us in anachronic absurdity. From Wordnik.com. [For Whom Shakespeare Wrote] Reference
Spiderwebs beneath old windows old devices empty jars memories of people long gone good people old ways resisting new futile days resilient our souls our anachronic souls the truth of honest living, true purity on dirty, the most beautiful faces, rests forever trapped on trunks and empty spaces. From Wordnik.com. [Popular in the last 8 hours] Reference
"ignominious and anachronic" expulsion of Cuba. From Wordnik.com. [MercoPress] Reference
"our complex lives can no longer be conveyed/reified/manifest by/within the traditional novel; our lives are no longer adequately represented by traditional, page-bound, linear, and plot-driven textual presentations such as those which dominated literature in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries." meh ... my notes are much clunkier, i know, than claire's original take. nevertheless, i find the idea quite compelling, if only it were to focus upon the novel's falling away from the purposes we've read it to assume, rather than our lives flying past the bounds of the novel. and ... again, to this end, claire, have you yet read "vurt?" did i ask you this before? it's hella-effed-up, as the kids out your way used to say ... but it's also only a novel. onto jackie's point, perhaps collaborative authorship really has moved into the mainstream of the marketplace. most tv shows (and movies, to be sure) rely upon multiple authorial and editorial revision, despite our anachronic reliance upon attrib. From Wordnik.com. [Book Review Brouhaha] Reference
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