as in throwback
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The moody Sapphire Room, dramatic with its midnight blue walls and heavy blue velvet drapes and couches, is a nostalgic throwback.
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Compared to the modern recovery methods at many of their clubs, Bielsa’s Uruguay camps were a throwback.
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And the anachronism is only one of the island’s unique properties.
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In his urban dramas, Kurosawa can open a frame onto the sprawl of Tokyo; on a historical set, any exterior view risks revealing a studio wall or an anachronism.
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Last year, the NCMM received 113 Benin Bronzes from the Netherlands—the largest single return of Benin antiquities directly linked to the 1897 British looting, according to the commission.
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Priceless artifacts stolen from these temples would then end up in the hands of unscrupulous antiquities dealers.
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Since war broke out in late February, the show in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia province, had grown increasingly popular, as interest surges among Chinese people in a nearby nation and culture that rivals their own in its depth and ancientness.
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