behind the times

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“It’s a worthy way to move forward for an institution that could be thought of as behind the times and connected to a period during which accessibility was not on the forefront of people’s minds,” said Mary-Kay Lombino, deputy director and curator of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College in nearby Poughkeepsie, who was not involved with the Pocantico project.

From New York Times

“The Seattle Times was really behind the times when it came to reporting all this,” said Randy Lewis, a Wenatchi/Methow elder from the Colville Confederated Tribes.

From Seattle Times

“Its parts seem to clash intensely, and the complex has neither the integrity of a truly classical structure nor that of a truly modern one. It is ponderous and graceless, a reminder that commercial architecture in Washington is still years behind the times.”

From Washington Post

He was tired, he said, of the “revisionism” that had been circulating in the industry, anonymous criticisms in the media that Warners had fallen behind the times, comments he felt were spread by the corporate powers in New York.

From Los Angeles Times

County prove to be ahead of the curve or, as some critics maintain, behind the times?

From Los Angeles Times