Word: archaicism
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...flexibility of word processing programs makes typewriters completely archaic. The ability to manip ulate text, correct mistakes and save work eliminates the need for painful retyping. Computers truly do make life much easier for students...
Allied to this was the city as tomb, both futuristic and archaic, a kind of Mayan ruin referring only to itself, incomprehensible to its antlike inhabitants. This left its most startling images in the expressionist cinema and in the sublime renderings of the American architect Hugh Ferriss, the Piranesi of the skyscraper age. But it also turns up in projects that were, however nominally, designed for the real world, like the huge pink mastabas of the "Metropolis" that Henri Sauvage hoped to raise beside the Seine...
...demise of the initials U.S.S.R. will mean that one classic Beatles tune will become archaic. But initials are tricky things. The Soviets (or ex- Soviets, as the case may be) should be careful not to name their country the Basically United Sovereign Territories...
...almost to the last minute and ended up sheltering behind U.S. policy. In the harsh judgment of Jacques Julliard, a columnist for the progovernment weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, "The gulf crisis revealed the weak influence of our diplomacy, the modest competitiveness of our industrialists and above all the archaic state of our military equipment...
...story was printed in the Tribune. It was picked up by the AP wire. Soon I had calls from half a dozen media organs; all apparently regarded our obstinacy as an arrogant, archaic, even quixotic gesture, something akin to kicking the pope out of a restaurant because he wasn't wearing a jacket...