| 单词 | obsolescent |
| 例句 | The use of an obsolescent technique to memorialize “Vertigo” is fitting. ‘Vertigo,’ Through Two Artists’ Eyes 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z It’s hard, watching four or five films a day amid crowds of fellow pilgrims, to believe that you’re participating in something marginal, obsolescent or beleaguered. Cinema Is Dead? Telluride Says Not Yet 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z This early jukebox should remind us that all eras are steampunk in the sense that they contain within them, simultaneously, nascent and obsolescent forms of technology. The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship 2013-05-10T15:01:02Z It is hard to imagine an obsolescent Robert Plant, but if that is what happens, and the theatres get smaller, he will not seem to mind, such is the contentment he exudes. The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z Far from obsolescent, how hardy the ghost story proves as a vessel for collective terror and guilt, for the unspeakable. The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z “An obsolescent subgenre,” he declared, with conspicuous relish; a “naïve” little form, as outmoded as its cheap effects, the table-tapping and flickering candlelight. The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The contemporary versions of these personal documents are mostly stored either on obsolescent PC hard drives or on the servers of internet companies, protected by a password. If you have lofty ambitions for your legacy, head for the attic 2011-01-09T00:05:39Z "We think of paper as sort of obsolescent now — the ideal of the green office, the paperless office," curator Fox said. On Craft & Folk Art Museum's golden anniversary, 'Paperworks' is a cutting-edge gift 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z When it premiered in 2005, the show highlighted the depressive nature of drab office life — fluorescent lighting, bland decor and annoying colleagues — where the threat of downsizing at an obsolescent company was a persistent theme. Here’s why we’re bingeing ‘The Office’ during the pandemic 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z But Randolph and Hastings always planned on video streaming rendering the DVD-by-mail service obsolescent once technology advanced to the point that watching movies and TV shows through internet connections became viable. Netflix’s DVD-by-mail service bows out as its red-and-white envelopes make their final trip 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z The American mainstream news media's approaches to writing and reporting and truth-telling are obsolescent in a time of ascendant fascism and a democracy crisis. Media plays a dangerous game with Trump 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z As a function of their obsolescent habits and norms, the American mainstream news media, especially the D.C. Trump dupes the media — with DeSantis' help 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z The Times’s Sarah Lyall described le Carré as “one of the last great practitioners of the increasingly obsolescent art of letter-writing.” Your Holiday Rituals 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z The later withdrawal of U.S. missiles from Turkey mildly assuaged Soviet humiliation, although in August, Kennedy had contemplated removing them because they were obsolescent. Opinion | The nuclear threat may be graver now than in the Cuban missile crisis 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z As an institution, the media remains wedded to obsolescent norms and ways of understanding politics and society, especially to horserace coverage, opinion polls and a dangerous commitment to "fairness" and "balance." How the Big Lie poison continues to spread — and why it's getting worse 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z But it is heroin, not fentanyl, that is now obsolescent. Heroin overdoses are vanishing from D.C. The reason? Fentanyl. 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z For the most part, they remain deeply invested in an obsolescent system that is teetering on collapse. Trump dances for the NRA: America's emotional health is critical and getting worse 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Hence, to the RSC, whether damaged or obsolescent, haphazardly hoarded devices represent a potentially massive boon for the green economy. Should humanity be "mining" e-waste landfills? Some chemists say so 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Biden genuinely believes that as a leading member of the American political caste he can somehow save the country's obsolescent political order. Dear Joe Biden: We don't want "unity" with fascists — that's why Democrats lose 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the mainstream news media remains trapped in obsolescent norms of "fairness," "balance" and "objectivity," rather than engaging in the type of pro-democracy advocacy journalism demanded by the country's escalating political crises. If America really surrenders to fascism, then what? Painful questions lie ahead 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z This commitment to an obsolescent political order, with its conventions of horserace journalism, both-sides-ism and other false equivalencies have only served to normalize and empower a criminal, destructive, racist and deeply sociopathic political movement. Will the mainstream media ever face its failure to tell the truth about Jan. 6? 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Too many among the mainstream news media and political class are unwilling to acknowledge this fact, because they are products of, and beholden, to an obsolescent way of thinking about politics and American society. Quit making fun of the Cyber Ninjas' Arizona "audit" — the fascists are still winning 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z This philosophy of disruption demands, above all, that technology continuously drive down labor costs and regularly render itself obsolescent. Artificial intelligence wants you (and your job) 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z “Imagine a future,” Williamson writes, “where a dictator or would-be dictator, accused of spreading falsehoods, can reply: ‘You are relying on obsolescent realist ideas of truth and falsity; realism has been discredited in philosophy.’” I'm Agonizing over My Naive Realism 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z But because the commentariat is still in denial about the monstrous evil of Donald Trump's regime, it will default to obsolescent habits in writing and thinking about American politics. Trump looked weak in Tulsa — but the political vulture fed his faithful more toxic lies 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z The United States, once the world's indispensable leader, now appears to be an obsolescent also-ran, with American exceptionalism replaced with the authoritarianism and neofascism associated with failed countries in other parts of the world. Rev. Dr. William Barber II: Only a "major moral revival and revolution" can defeat Trump 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z A review of Iran’s weapons shows that many of them are “obsolete, obsolescent, or of relatively low quality,” according to a 2018 report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Analysis | The U.S. outguns Iran, but it faces painful realities in the event of a war 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z It would replace “obsolescent housing and catch-as-catch-can maintenance” with “a nirvana of planned Neighborhoods.” Special Report: As their landlord profits, soldiers battle unsafe... 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Both candidates say Georgia’s obsolescent voting machines need to be replaced. Lasting Rancor Over Voting Issues Puts a Spotlight on a Georgia Runoff 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z He thinks low-rise pants will become “prematurely obsolescent” because balanced proportions transcend fashion trends. Want to Dress Like Kylo Ren of Star Wars? You’ll Need Maternity Pants 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z You loathe the term “dinosaur” when applied to things that are outdated or obsolescent. Why T. Rex's Puny Arms Are a Sign of Strength 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z As the building aged into obsolescent, though, it stubbornly resisted solutions. Old Soldiers’ Homes, Left to Just Fade Away 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Dismiss this as the griping of obsolescent elites, but regular Americans are similarly apprehensive. Trump needs to get over his victory 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z The result of these two factors is a Republican Party and American conservative establishment that is under threat, obsolescent and in a deep existential crisis. Secrets of Donald Trump’s cult: This is why the angriest white voters will not leave his side 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z But the persistence of obsolescent technologies goes beyond culture. Why People Stick With Outdated Technology 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The move followed a proposal made by Lockheed last December aimed at lowering costs by increasing commonality with other space systems, making the spacecraft more resilient, and reducing the number of obsolescent parts. U.S. Air Force to use new Lockheed spacecraft for next satellites 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z With The Newsroom, Sorkin created a slew of such characters, even if a few of them may occasionally come across as self-righteous or obsolescent. Why Do Viewers—And Critics—Love to Hate ‘The Newsroom’? Doctors at the old hospital were exempted from a lot of this work because of its obsolescent infrastructure. ‘Code Black’ movie review The T-64 is an obsolescent tank no longer in active use by Russian forces, but still kept in storage in southwest Russia. Russia Has Sent Tanks to Ukraine Rebels, U.S. Says 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z All previous battleships - including all of those in the Royal Navy - were now obsolescent, and would soon be known dismissively as "pre-Dreadnoughts". The 20th Century's first arms race 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Obsolete is the end point; obsolescent is the journey towards. 20 More Incorrectly Used Words That Can Make You Look Horrible 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z By contrast, “Schumpeter insisted that . . . innovation—that is, entrepreneurship that moves resources from old and obsolescent to new and more productive employments—is the very essence of economics and most certainly of a modern economy.” 12 Technologies To "Make The Future Happen" 2013-05-28T18:41:28Z The pace of change is certainly accelerating – business models today already become obsolescent in less than 20 years, and that figure is going to fall further. Driverless cars, pilotless planes … will there be jobs left for a human being? 2013-05-19T07:30:02Z What's the point of patenting something if it stands to become quickly obsolescent? What a 'Big Bang' Disruptor Could Do to You 2013-03-07T18:59:01Z Its subsidiary Osram, a lighting manufacturer, has been shifting jobs away from making obsolescent light bulbs. Siemens’s new strategy: Re-engineering 2012-10-25T15:00:58Z Two partisans of the thesis, Joshua S. Goldstein and Steven Pinker, acknowledged in an opinion article in the Sunday Review last December that the idea that war was obsolescent might seem preposterously utopian. IHT Rendezvous: Europe Told to Count Its Blessings 2012-10-12T11:13:33Z Though obsolescent, it was still sufficiently alive to be troublesome. Boy Labour and Apprenticeship 2012-03-30T02:00:18.807Z Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The real problem isn't so much that patents grow quickly obsolescent. What a 'Big Bang' Disruptor Could Do to You 2013-03-07T18:59:01Z The “nominal horse-power” by which engines are sometimes rated is an arbitrary and obsolescent term of indefinite significance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The verse catches something of Shakespeare's sweetness and artlessness as well as his obsolescent words, and the few persons and the silly story catch something of Lamb's own simplicity and charity. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Perhaps these obsolescent customs, unsuited to prosperous times, had lingered longer among the Spanish grandees. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z The idea that war is obsolescent may seem preposterously utopian. Opinion: War Really Is Going Out of Style 2011-12-18T01:46:01Z When the university increased under Elizabeth, the idea of living in halls in the medi�val fashion, as we have seen, was obsolescent, so that the result of the increase was to enlarge the colleges. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z Take the original mass of a now obsolescent organ in relation to that of the entire organism of which it then formed a part to be represented by the ratio 1:100. Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility 2011-10-16T02:00:14.153Z He knew the obsolescent battleship both by observation and repute. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z The course was very thorough, covering much that was obsolescent, and a good deal that was definitely dead. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z Also, we should elevate the city-state as the primary institution of government in replacement of the obsolescent, imperial relic of the so-called nation-state. Making Cities Better: Answers from The Scientific American Survey 2011-08-30T13:15:19.260Z Of the obsolescent god, now but a name, the Atahocan of the Hurons was, while the "Lord in heaven" of the Zulus is, an instance. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z But in all cases, if time enough be allowed under the cessation of selection, the force of heredity will eventually fall to zero, when the hitherto obsolescent structure will finally become obsolete. Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility 2011-10-16T02:00:14.153Z Poor devils! condemned by the brutality of obsolescent laws to moulder in captivity in expiation for pitiful debts. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z He must write books and be glad that he was no longer a priest, bound with forms and obsolescent vows. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z Here he opened the inner doors, ushering Joan into a hallway typical of an old order of dwelling, now happily obsolescent. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z But Atahocan is obsolescent, and his name is nearly equivalent to an old wife's fable, a story of events au temps jadis.*** Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z In short, the country was already thoroughly democratic in spirit, while Federalism stood for obsolescent social ideas and was infected with political “Toryism” fatally against the times. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z Sarcastic observers joked that the scene — the monotonous non-event held every five years that has become Vietnam's 11th National Party Congress — summed up the obsolescent state of the communist party itself. Why Vietnam's Political Reshuffling Won't Fix A Struggling Economy 2011-01-20T03:40:00Z The predominant underlying direction still appears to be free market, emphasizing the obsolescent nature of national sectors and industries. News Analysis: Beleaguered Europe Seems to Stand Pat on Economic Strategy 2010-12-29T19:31:13Z To be sure, wealthy humanitarians might take pity on their economically obsolescent fellow citizens. Are the American people obsolete? 2010-07-27T13:01:00Z In fact, those categories have been obsolescent since George W. Bush effectively nationalized the banks and Obama won the nomination on a center-right cultural platform. 2010-01-23T03:14:00Z It is such thoughtless indulgence of muscles growing obsolescent that retards the evolution of our species, a species, sir, which I claim is coessential in fundamental attributes with contemporaneous amphibia. The Haunted Pajamas That part of government which had been concerned with social administration, if it did not end, became at least obsolescent. The Acquisitive Society There is another word, a synonym, which is now obsolescent, though it is at times used in poetry. H. R. The methods of burning cement described above are obsolescent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" Keeping in mind the antique and ‘obsolescent’ character of the gens and γένος, let us examine the theories of the origin of these associations. Custom and Myth New Edition The solitary girl on the remote farm or in the obsolescent village has small share in this form of education and remains with her resources undeveloped. The American Country Girl These airplanes are obsolescent, if not obsolete, and their crews are trained for reconnaissance only. Area Handbook for Romania It is obsolescent, but still used in such out of the way places as Phobos. B-12's Moon Glow He spent most of the night calculating where he could place tiny self-activators in the "obsolescent" robots that were to be donated by his plant. The Junkmakers It may crop up in the inquiries of some intelligent mechanic seeking knowledge among the obsolescent accumulations of a public library, or it may for a moment be touched upon by some veteran teacher. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism Marie Louise still belonged to the obsolescent generation that believed it a husband’s duty to support his wife by his own labor. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards The idea of a God who at divers times interfered with His creation and temporarily set aside His own laws to convince puny man of His greatness, is likewise obsolescent. Carmen Ariza The prevailing purpose seems to have been to expunge all obsolete words and phrases while dealing tenderly with obsolescent ones. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer "Handbills asserting objects declared obsolescent could actually last indefinitely!" The Junkmakers What thought of private gain will ever scrap our obsolescent railroads and our stagnating industrial monopolies for new clean methods? New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism The countless codes, now obsolescent, over which dead eyes had grown dim! Dreamers of the Ghetto The reasons why genuine æsthetic feeling inhibits these obsolescent instincts of rapacity and ruthlessness, are reasons negative and positive, and may be roughly divided into three headings. Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life No pains were spared in verifying particulars, especially through elderly people on the farms, who could best explain the old-fashioned terms and who had a clear remembrance of obsolescent details of sæter life. Lisbeth Longfrock So much, then, for a few special instances of what Darwin called rudimentary structures, but what may be more descriptively designated—in accordance with the theory of descent—obsolescent or vestigial structures. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions As soon as Miss Francis was ready to go into action the strain upon our obsolescent technology and hungerweakened manpower would be crippling. Greener Than You Think “Hello” is a useless and obsolescent form of response in business offices. The Book of Business Etiquette Page 186 This rule might also be made to include obsolescent words: words that are at present time passing out of use. Practical Grammar and Composition A little but not very much of this is obsolete or obsolescent. Gryll Grange Björnson, though he is an evolutionist, is far removed from the philosophic temper in his dealings with the obsolete or obsolescent remnants in political and religious creeds. Essays on Scandinavian Literature The obsolescent family Bible, with its chronicle of births, deaths and marriages, is an institution of too great value in more ways than one, to be given up. Applied Eugenics However we view its aspects, it offers in its functioning a sharp contrast to the workings of the moribund and obsolescent institutions to which a perverse generation is desperately clinging. Messages to America Lamb was so thoroughly imbued with the thought and modes of expression of the rich Elizabethan and Stuart periods that his use of obsolescent words was probably more often than not quite unconscious. Charles Lamb Mere curiosities, current slang, far-fetched metaphors, passing foreign phrases, archaisms, obsolete and obsolescent terms, too new coinages, atrocities, should be avoided as a plague. Public Speaking His original instructions were obsolescent and he readily adapted himself to the altered situation. A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans But, furthermore, the great body of Elizabethan and Stuart literature was already obsolescent. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Most of the disagreements and conflicts between governments relate to interferences with the free play of economic internationalism by states whose policy is still dominated by foolish and obsolescent rules of a narrowly national economy. The Unity of Civilization Already, alas! even in farmhouses, backlog and forestick are obsolescent words, and close-mouthed stoves chill the spirit while they bake the flesh with their grim and undemonstrative hospitality. The Function of the Poet and Other Essays It is immaterial whether one concludes that a Society of Nations is therefore impossible in the present conjuncture or that all those survivals of the old state system are obsolescent and should be abolished. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference It is made from Jones' dictionary, which is therefore allowed to rule whether the word is obsolescent rather than obsolete: some of these seem to be truly obsolete. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones Keeping in mind the antique and ‘obsolescent’ character of the gens and yενος, let us examine the theories of the origin of these associations. Custom and Myth The word is obsolete in England, is obsolescent at our colleges, and is very seldom heard in the other senses given above. A Collection of College Words and Customs And with all this, in his hard rugged style, bristling with obsolescent words and unexpected neologisms, flashed perfect originalities, treasures of expression and superbly nomadic lines amputated of rhyme. Against the Grain This mixture of obsolescent theology and Epicurean philosophy probably possessed little reality for Vergil himself, and would have conveyed no meaning whatever to the Sicilian shepherds. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England In the South of England few persons now know what barm is. arch: adj., probably obsolescent. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones The vaster vistas which scientific evolutionism has opened, and the rising tide of social democratic ideals, have changed the type of our imagination, and the older monarchical theism is obsolete or obsolescent. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy In my opinion, our grammarians have shown far more affection for the obsolete or obsolescent terminations en, eth, est, and edst, than they really deserve. The Grammar of English Grammars "I only meant," pleaded Mr. Clarkson, "that an obsolescent jest is, like middle-age, occasionally vapid, possessing neither the interest of antiquity nor the freshness of surprise." Essays in Rebellion An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. The Devil's Dictionary In the more civilized communities, or rather in the communities which have reached an advanced industrial development, the spirit of warlike aggression may be said to be obsolescent among the common people. Theory of the Leisure Class Its small and obsolescent industrial sector, concentrated around Bishkek, has traditionally relied on Russia and other CIS countries for customers and industrial inputs, including most of its fuel. The 1995 CIA World Factbook But no obsolescent termination has ever yet been recalled into the popular service. The Grammar of English Grammars Other major industrial sectors - chemicals, construction materials, light industry, and food processing - also suffer from quality problems, obsolescent capital equipment, and pollution. The 1992 CIA World Factbook Its small and obsolescent industrial sector, concentrated around Bishkek, is heavily dependent on Russia and other CIS countries for customers and for inputs, including most of its fuel. The 1994 CIA World Factbook Once integrated into the thriving West German economy, the area will have to stem the outflow of workers and renovate the obsolescent industrial base. The 1990 CIA World Factbook In the battle-pieces of the last three books we sometimes cannot help being reminded that Virgil is rather wearily following an obsolescent literary tradition. Latin Literature The last two are obsolescent, or at least not in very common use. The Grammar of English Grammars At the same time he was vaguely vexed by her persistent repetition of the obsolescent nickname. The Brass Bowl It was a fancy, born of that sense of mystery which the unknown and the unusual in nature wakes in us—an obsolescent feeling that still links us to the savage. The Naturalist in La Plata They preserved a "balance of power" and prevented the incorporation of the French monarchy into an obsolescent empire. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. There are traces of an original divine being whose name is becoming obsolescent and a matter of jest. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 The floors of hall and living-room were strewn with fresh-cut rushes, an obsolescent custom which served here alike to save the heavy cost of carpets and to lend the place an ancient baronial dignity. The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series The public denounced this attempt to strangle its liberties and reviled the Police Chief as the would be enforcer of obsolescent blue laws. Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography Men of middle age, rather early middle age, remember the two following species of bullying to which they were subjected, and which, perhaps, are obsolescent. Adventures Among Books I do not say that the horse is entirely obsolescent in this war. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war Now that conception is considerably above the obsolescent belief in an otiose god which is usually found among barbaric races of the type from which the Australians are said to have degenerated. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 He was sixty-five, pompous, large, and rubicund—a "backwoodsman" of a pattern obsolescent. The Grey Room Laws are made obsolescent by change of circumstances, by the growth of convictions which render their execution impossible, and the like. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 As to disobedience to an obsolescent law, the question in every man's mind must be as to the degree of its obsolescence. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 |
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