| This, however, leads to an ahistorical view of the world, and could lead to poor diplomacy and bad policy. |
| Both of these notions are simplistic and ahistorical, and I'll try to argue that they're shortsighted. |
| Numerous ahistorical Buddhas make an appearance in Mahyna literature, notably the five Jinas who are popular in tantric schools. |
| But the worst offense is a tone of cheerful, sanitized neutrality so overwhelming that it actually renders the prose ahistorical. |
| The literary establishment's incoherent critique combines snobbish disdain for popular culture with an ahistorical philistinism. |
| The immediacy of violence and the reaction of artists were in some part ahistorical focusing instead on the universal and timeless viscerality. |
