Anachronisms

-- The stories of Jesus 'human weaknesses and of the disciples' faults also bespeak the Gospels 'accuracy: the Gospels do not try to suppress apparent discrepancies, which indicates their originality; the Gospels do not contain anachronisms; the authors appear to have been first-century Jews who were witnesses of the events; ❋ Unknown (2006)

It is not, however, so much on these as on so-called anachronisms that assailants have attacked the letters. ❋ Various (N/A)

He was unhappily sure that Mrs. May's position in her far-off world (world for which he was deemed unworthy) associated her with dukes, earls, barons, counts, and all sorts of titled anachronisms of every nation. ❋ Unknown (1889)

And I don´t think it is enough for Neil to argue like his mythicist friend Joseph Wallack that there are so many "anachronisms" in GMark that it must be 2nd century. ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)

Shomarka Keita's presentation alone is more than sufficient to overturn your accusations of "Twentieth century race politics", "anachronisms" and "ethonationalism." ❋ Unknown (2010)

She queried so called 'anachronisms' on just about every page - none of them were anachronistic - it was just that she hadn't the faintest idea about the place or period - and she made the whole experience hideous. ❋ Stroppy Author (2009)

Such poets and artists never have the fear of "anachronisms" before them. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

If this were so, the relative rarity of "anachronisms" and of modernisms in language in the Homeric poems is explained. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

"anachronisms" and "contradictions," but in no way militates against the doctrine that Moses was the original author of the whole of the Pentateuch. ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)

Historical fiction writers face criticism if they change known history i.e., reversing the outcome of a war; if they drastically change the character of a historical figure; if they have anachronisms in details, setting, or language; or if they make mistakes in chronology. ❋ Lindsay Edmunds (2011)

If I could distinguish between phrases that have become idioms for something and anachronisms, I wonder if the English usage of “torch” for “flashlight” is one of the more anachronistic (of the “album” for “CD” sort) ❋ Unknown (2009)

Novelists will be able to scrub away the little anachronisms that can make even a recently published story feel dated. ❋ Nicholas Carr (2011)

I adore the crafting of this story, the carefully incorporated anachronisms and the sheer * heart* of it. ❋ Karenmiller (2009)

Maybe you're one of those curmudgeonly anachronisms who think a president should be chosen on the basis of substance, not style and if so look no further than Mitt Romney, whose style has so much substance that scientists have searched his hair for the Higgs boson. ❋ Tony Phillips (2011)

Most of the comedy of the film is based on anachronisms of how Dracula is trying to adapt to the modern age (i.e. he thinks blood banks are really cool). ❋ Unknown (2010)

The riveting world she created in those novels is far closer to the truth than Auel's sugar-coated anachronisms. ❋ Ph.D. Athena Andreadis (2011)