| The English regions are, by comparison, ahistorical, nebulously conceived, arbitrarily imposed. |
| Such ahistorical preconceptions suggest that the only good work being done is work that is completely new. |
| Colonial apologists have often used this ahistorical narrative to celebrate the advent of colonialism. |
| But the worst offense is a tone of cheerful, sanitized neutrality so overwhelming that it actually renders the prose ahistorical. |
| The immediacy of violence and the reaction of artists were in some part ahistorical focusing instead on the universal and timeless viscerality. |
| Both of these notions are simplistic and ahistorical, and I'll try to argue that they're shortsighted. |
