Lev Grossman

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

American Novelist

Anthony Fantano

For artists, looking back in time for ideas is commonplace, but there's an overwhelming sense of '70s and '80s nostalgia in California musician Ariel Pink's music. It's impossible to separate 'Round and Round' from the anachronism, and there's no loving one without loving the other.

American Celebrity

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.

Indian Scientist

Roger Altman

There are a lot of anachronisms in Washington, but the need to periodically raise the debt limit by Congressional vote is certainly one of them.

American Businessman

Margrethe II of Denmark

One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.

Danish Royalty

Dick Van Dyke

Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.

American Actor

Priti Patel

The E.U., its institutions, structure and ways of working are an anachronism.

British Politician

Minnie Driver

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

English Actress

Andrew Rosenthal

Datelines are kind of an anachronism. It's a little bit of an affectation.

American Journalist

Jinkx Monsoon

American Entertainer

Consider if the item or person fits into the time period spoken about to identify anachronisms.

Historical Context

Anachronisms can be intentional for humor or effect in modern retellings of historical stories.

Cultural References

Using 'anachronism' may subtly suggest that something is outdated and should be replaced.

Implicit Criticism

Anachronisms in historical works can suggest a lack of research or attention to detail.

Attention to Detail

Sometimes anachronisms are used intentionally to highlight a plot point or theme in a story.

Plot Significance

 Then the director asked me, why do you ask all these questions? I said, I also have a pottery. So he asked me, could he please visit me, and then finally he did, and explained to me that what I did now in my shop was an anachronism,