unhistorical

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Mr. Vickers called the performance “infuriating because René Jacobs’s decisions — unhistorical, unstylish and profoundly unmusical — cause a cornucopia of horrible aberrations.”

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2011

I am a Catholic peculiarly possessed of the modern consciousness, that thing Jung describes as unhistorical, solitary, and guilty.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 22, 2001

Richard Attenborough's much-Oscared movie Gandhi struck me, when it was first released, as an example of this type of unhistorical Western saintmaking.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bultmann's critics today feel that he too casually relegated the Resurrection to the realm of the unhistorical.

From Time Magazine Archive

They develop exotically, scarce one that does not grow outside its original sphere, assimilate foreign unhistorical matter, blur all chronology, and anachronistically poetize the dim recollections of a historical but long-forgotten underground.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann