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He has also been sentenced to a concurrent eight-year term for using the verb in an anachronistic context.
Other titles in the Brewer series, a name perpetuated more for commercial association with Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable than for relevance of content, are, in addition to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 14th Edition, Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Brewer's Politics, Brewer's Theatre , and the anachronistic Brewer's Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Phrase and Fable [BIBLIOGRAPHIA, XVIII, 4, 19], Brewer's Cinema, and Brewer's Twentieth-Century Music .
The anachronistic colloquial expressions ("bedding down," "a little snow," "shit, man"), the insertion of gratuitous detail ("his TR-6 convertible sports car," "one point four-five million dollars"), and the utterly non-conversational tone ("raised almost a staggering sixty million dollars") all make me suspicious.
Bach performance in the style of those old Grand Teutons--conductors like Furtwängler, Klemperer, and von Karajan--has fallen out of fashion and favor, and massed Victorian armies raising the rafters as they belt out The Messiah now seem quaintly anachronistic.
The state derives much of its revenue from an anachronistic personal-property tax, which has evolved into a tax mainly on automobile ownership.