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More than anyone else in his generation, Edward Said has sought to embody an unfashionable, perhaps obsolescent idea of the intellectual--immersed in culture and committed to politics, placing "criticism over solidarity," speaking truth to power, and steering clear of gods that fail.
In movies like Interview With the Vampire and Heat , Goldenthal returned the obsolescent Hollywood orchestra to some of its old glory.
Also, for a press that's become quite intoxicated with the technical details of our weapons, especially when they work, there's a notable lack of information in the accounts about how each of six U.S. missiles could fail to hit obsolescent Iraqi planes.
The German usage is worth comparing with the obsolescent American bummer and with bummle in British dialect.
Having listened to BBC news readers for many years, I am inclined to regard BBC pronunciation as an archaic or obsolescent term (unless one restricts the designation to news readers on BBC World Service).