It's an anachronism to speak of Mark as satirizing people watching TV.
I have certainly engaged in a certain amount of anachronism but I have also used punctuation and I have worked out ways in which this discourse makes sense.
This is history seen as an inevitable progress towards a glorious future: a pattern imposed on the past with little thought of anachronism or the subtleties of events and personalities.
They are an anachronism, part of a system that may never go away.
He is interested in the spirit of the play, and he is not averse to throwing in an anachronism or two if he thinks it will help underscore a point.
It would be an anachronism to talk of Queen Victoria watching television.
However, the "VW law" that gives the state a veto over important decisions is a controversial anachronism which both the European Commission and Porsche, VW's new owner, are determined to get rid of.
The name is a misleading anachronism that dates from when secret meant private (" secretary "has the same derivation).
Most, though, just wanted the tidy resolution of what had long seemed an anachronism, albeit a rather effective one.
Some people say that marriage is an anachronism in 2002, but I still like the romantic ideal of being with one person for the rest of my life.
Is it a pointless anachronism or an invaluable moral guide?
The monarchy is something of an anachronism these days.
