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Not that datedness is the only reason for removing old illustrations.

Much of his work, including some of the best, has acquired a reputation for datedness.

The feeling of datedness was also partly a matter of operatic style.

Like most other writers' collections of previously published work, it suffers occasionally from repetition and datedness.

The book is out of print due to its datedness as some aspects covered in the book later became inaccurate.

There's a certain datedness to the stagey poses and all the dense, textured atmosphere.

Rather than clarifying the jokes, this approach obfuscates the humor while underscoring its datedness.

Still, large benefits stem from both the datedness and the variety of Mr. Auletta's material.

Kate Summerscale wrote that the "Englishness and datedness of the original game are intrinsic to its appeal".

Over the years, Waterville has had to remove and replace attractions due to hurricane damage and the datedness of the attraction.

'Ihe biggest -An with mailing lists is datedness.

"Show Boat" provides an intriguing example of how to transcend the ravages of fashion by taking them as a theme; it anticipates its own datedness.

Instead, David Holdgrive, the director, goes for a straightforward rendering of score and text, inviting easy attacks on grounds of datedness.

The sweetness and measure of these images, and their slight datedness, lend a veneer of decorum to an undeniable adult eroticism.

Its datedness is amplified by the central situation: the helpless and humiliated prisoners being harangued by a malicious, self-justifying chain-gang boss.

Its datedness may have had something to do with the fact that despite the obvious quality of the work, Betty never moved out into other media, such as movies and radio shows.

Luckily boys don't notice datedness too readily, and the boarders seemed to lap up Biggles, or John Buchan, or even Edgar Wallace.

He facetiously critiqued that the album's songs "may reek of stale joss sticks and patchouli-scented self-actualisation, but in their very datedness they somehow sound very modern."

But if this erotic ambition is one more aspect of Clark's untimeliness, that untimeliness may allow him to escape mere datedness to disclose a new poetic future for us all."

Public media, grouped in the consortium RTNH (Radio Télévision Nationale d'Haïti), despite the out datedness of their equipment, cover much of the territory.

Dan Whitehead of Eurogamer elaborated on Duke Nukem's decreased relevance since 1996, and added that the character's "half-hearted digs" at rival franchises were ill-advised due to the game's datedness.

As director and adaptor, Ms. Moore cleverly avoids any embarrassing datedness by unfolding the show as a sweetly told bedtime story set in a place as remote as Peter Pan's Neverland.

The only troubling thing is the seeming datedness of the novel's themes, among them the unfair oppression of the lower classes in 19th-century England and the extent of luck and amoral resourcefulness required to escape from grinding poverty.

First, the modern elements of the narrative rescue it from datedness: "I want to keep the chronology of things but at the same time to make their pattern sensible, which means disrupting the chronology," explains McIlvaine at one point.

With the United States on the brink of war, and with race at the forefront of American social issues, "South Pacific," for all its datedness (especially regarding relations between the sexes), gives off quite the frisson of pertinence.