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

The first assertion is unhistorical; the second unpractical.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The unhistorical is like the surrounding atmosphere that can alone create life, and in whose annihilation life itself disappears.

From Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm