With his anachronistic attitude toward the biblical story, Bale is just following the lead of his director. You seem keenly aware of the anachronistic nature of gender identity. His conduct is boorish and intemperate; his views are anachronistic and absurd; his moral authority is zilch. He glanced somewhat contemptuously at his uncle Everard's anachronistic notions of what was fair in war.

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The most common type of anachronism is an object misplaced in time, but it may be a verbal expression, a technology, a philosophical idea, a musical style, a material, a plant or animal, a custom, or anything else associated with a particular period that is placed outside its proper temporal domain. An anachronism may be either intentional or unintentional. Intentional anachronisms may be introduced into a literary or artistic work to help a contemporary audience engage more readily with a historical period. Anachronism can also be used for purposes of rhetoric, propaganda, comedy, or shock. Unintentional anachronisms may occur when a writer, artist, or performer is unaware of differences in technology, language, customs, attitudes, or fashions between different historical eras. This may be an object, idiomatic expression, technology, philosophical idea, musical style, material, custom, or anything else so closely bound to a particular time period as to seem strange when encountered in a later era. They may be objects or ideas that were once common but are now considered rare or inappropriate. They can take the form of obsolete technology or outdated fashion or idioms. Examples of parachronisms could include a suburban housewife in the United States around using a washboard for laundry well after washing machines had become the norm ; a teenager from the s being an avid fan of ragtime music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; or a businessman in wearing late 19th century clothing. Often, a parachronism is identified when a work based on a particular era's state of knowledge is read within the context of a later era—with a different state of knowledge.
anachronism
To save this word, you'll need to log in. An anachronism is something that is out of place in terms of time or chronology. The word derives from chronos, the Greek word for "time," and ana-, a Greek prefix meaning "up," "back," or "again. Anachronisms were sometimes distinguished from parachronisms, chronological errors in which dates are set later than is correct. But parachronism did not stand the test of time.
For as realistic as they try to be, movies are rife with anachronisms. Here are a few examples These days, says another former top studio executive, puts are an anachronism. This rendered the conflict absurd, and religious wars became an anachronism. In short, Hare's view of the average American is now such an anachronism as to entitle him fairly to be called a freak. The development of production makes the existence of different classes of society thenceforth an anachronism. But it is an anachronism to read the ideals of later ages into the doings of the men of the early thirteenth century.