Sentences with contemporary
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C c - She writes a lot of contemporary music for people like Whitney Houston.
- ...drawing upon official records and the reports of contemporary witnesses.
- Davy Graham is a contemporary of McTell's who was the original guitar hero of the emerging early 60s British folk underground.
- And a lot of that sort of fearlessness and punk rock edge were carried over into her modern, contemporary style.
- Like most of my contemporaries, I grew up in a vastly different world.
- Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- These accounts are valuable for contemporary historians of those regions in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
- Roughly contemporary with the pier table, it was also made in New York City, although by whom has not been determined.
- A Georgian table with a contemporary wig stand.
- A lecture on the contemporary novel.
- It takes into consideration a huge variety of cultural, personal and social concerns, creating a vivid mosaic that presents a contemporary image of our Canadian identity.
- Many of the first explorers in the New World wrote home about army ants, as have more contemporary writers, natural historians, and the like.
- Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare. The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries.
- We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
- This is a modern, contemporary design and would be a high quality building.
- Whether your taste runs to classic, country, or contemporary style, the following pages show how to achieve that look.
- At that time the contemporary hypothesis was that this disease was attributable to damp living conditions.
- But the Church wants to challenge that finding by meeting and debating with leading thinkers on faith and contemporary living.
- The subordination of women to men and the prohibition on divorce, both clearly stated in scripture, can at present be modified to adapt the church to contemporary society.
- This proposed project will combine ideas taken from contemporary climatic design and traditional Middle Eastern art and architecture.
- Morris chairs, which sat in the living area for years, were replaced with a more contemporary upholstered cream-coloured three-piece set to match the walls.
- And nobody has turned up evidence of a meteor impact contemporary with the event.
- The ideas date back at least 3,000 years, yet a growing number of architects and decorators are integrating feng shui ideas with contemporary building design.
- I spent much of my early career working with musicians and presenting traditional and contemporary poetry as theater for school-aged children.
- Archytas was, roughly speaking, a contemporary of Plato, but it is difficult to be more precise about his dates.
- Drawings, designs, contemporary paintings, and modern photographs complement the text.
- Instead of reading the English literary critics, I read the historians and contemporary 14th century stuff.
- The legal questions presented in contemporary periodicals and monographs cannot be understood without such a foundation for analysis as this book provides.
- A contemporary of Skinner, at the other end of Somerset, was the Reverend Mr Holland, an altogether better balanced character.
- The band of flat chased decoration is too dense and tightly packed to be contemporary with the mark.
- He joins other contemporary historians in this kind of quest, obviously hoping to round out the rougher edges of writing American history.
- Reassuringly simple in design but given a contemporary twist by modern detailing, the boxes can be wall-mounted, placed on wheels or used freestanding.
- His eyes are opened by a contemporary who owns nothing but appreciates beauty, and the revelation revolutionises their previously unpleasant relationship.
- Readers will not get a strong sense of the historical processes that led each of these four groups to the structure and belief system present in the contemporary world.
- For a time, a contemporary of the poet with his own cancer came to visit him and they were able to converse quite satisfactorily.
- Whitewashed walls, unclothed blond-wood tables and banquettes complete the contemporary feel.
- Since contemporary can mean either of the same period or of the present period, it is best to avoid this word where ambiguity might arise, as in a production of Othello in contemporary dress. Modern dress or Elizabethan dress should be used in this example to avoid ambiguity