He used it to pump water from his well; it occurred to her again, as it had occurred to her before, that it was an absurd anachronism on a plantation that functioned on imported power units.

He is an absurd anachronism!

Under the threat of a missile-launched nuclear Armageddon on 20 minutes' warning, the idea of protracted Congressional deliberation could be made to look like an absurd 18th-century anachronism.

It was an absurd anachronism, but that's the way people were.

Composing with pencil and paper is in itself far from grim work; but revising and editing, and then copying the results into legible form (read: "in imitation of engraving") is painful and, with inexpensive modern technology, soon to be an absurd anachronism.

The Apostles of Flame are an absurd anachronism.

The director of the Exposition Universelle, Alfred Picard, thought holding an ancient sport event at the Exposition Universelle was an "absurd anachronism".

The absence of unifying electronic medical records among hospitals and practitioners is an absurd and dangerous anachronism in this age when any teen-ager can carry a multi-player hockey video game around on a cell-phone.

As the 20th century approached, there was then a revival of old forms in furniture under the name of the Queen Anne, although frequently spoken of by dealers, with absurd anachronism, as the Early English.

How to show Elizabeth's flaws but also her humanity, when you believe (as Mr. Frears and his screenwriter, Peter Morgan, do) that the monarchy is an absurd anachronism?