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  • We're visiting the Museum of Contemporary Art.
    contemporary = characteristic of or belonging to the present time
  • He pulled me away toward the door, and I followed him while Van Houten ranted to Lidewij about the ingratitude of contemporary teenagers and the death of polite society, and Lidewij, somewhat hysterical, shouted back at him in rapid-fire Dutch.   (source)
    contemporary = belonging to the present time
  • Toward the end of June, Chris, still in Atlanta, mailed his parents a copy of his final grade report: A in Apartheid and South African Society and History of Anthropological Thought; A minus in Contemporary African Politics and the Food Crisis in Africa.   (source)
  • At this writing, only England has held back before the temptations of contemporary diabolism.   (source)
  • As Saeed was coming down from the hill to where Nadia again sat by their tent, a young woman was leaving the contemporary art gallery she worked at in Vienna.   (source)
  • Well, because Hawthorne's work is so extraordinary and applicable to contemporary society, I want each of you to write a report pertaining to the novel.   (source)
  • Contemporary legends such as the "underground pipe-line to Canada" attached themselves to him, and there was one persistent story that he didn't live in a house at all, but in a boat that looked like a house and was moved secretly up and down the Long Island shore.   (source)
  • When she had had enough electricity to charge her backup battery, she would lounge around and listen to her records in the light of a single bare bulb, the harsh sounds of the fighting muffled somewhat by her music, and she would then glance at her windows and think that they looked a bit like amorphous black works of contemporary art.   (source)
  • I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.   (source)
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  • Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were contemporary artists who competed for some projects.
  • He was much older than the parents of our school contemporaries, and there was nothing Jem or I could say about him when our classmates said, "My father-"   (source)
    contemporaries = people of about the same age
  • This, from a contemporary critic's commentary on Madame Butterfly: "Pinkerton suffers from …. being an obnoxious bounder whom every man in the audience itches to kick."   (source)
    contemporary = something occurring in the same period of time as something else
  • The authority which we have chiefly followed—a manuscript of old date, drawn up from the verbal testimony of individuals, some of whom had known Hester Prynne, while others had heard the tale from contemporary witnesses fully confirms the view taken in the foregoing pages.   (source)
    contemporary = living at the same time
  • As we stared at the markups on the wall, admiring the work of some of our contemporaries, Shea reached over his shoulder, pulled the backpack in front of him, and slowly unzipped it.†   (source)
  • We think these dinosaurs were so successful because they had better jaws and teeth for chewing plants than their contemporaries did.†   (source)
  • Now they seemed like contemporaries, with Jess, in fact, a shade more sophisticated and self-assured.†   (source)
  • That was the kind of thing that Mrs. Hoyt was attempting to prepare us for—as early as February 1966 she started warning the young people who would listen to her; she made contact with all of Harry's contemporaries in Gravesend.†   (source)
  • For a moment, hearing the verse aloud, Langdon felt transported in time …. as though he were one of Galileo's contemporaries, listening to the poem for the first time …. knowing it was a test, a map, a clue unveiling the four altars of science …. the four markers that blazed a secret path across Rome.†   (source)
  • As for the others in my story, in the early 1970s nearly all of my contemporaries were sent to the countryside for "reeducation."†   (source)
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  • When he unveiled the invention at the fair, the prototype was as yet untested, and his contemporaries were skeptical—and rightfully so.†   (source)
  • It's an epic poem written by the great scholars about the great rulers who were their contemporaries.†   (source)
  • Do we really believe that novels or poems by any of these writers, or their contemporaries Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner, will be naive?†   (source)
  • He returned more fastidious than when he left, more in control of his nature, and none of his contemporaries seemed as rigorous and as learned as he in his science, and none could dance better to the music of the day or improvise as well on the piano.†   (source)
  • Poincaré's contemporaries refused to acknowledge that facts are preselected because they thought that to do so would destroy the validity of scientific method.†   (source)
  • Both Jesus and Socrates were enigmatic personalities, also to their contemporaries.†   (source)
  • His contemporaries thought him "stand-offish," yet forgave him, saying, "Oh, Kenyon.†   (source)
  • He was menaced in a way that they were not, and it was perhaps this sense, and the instinct which compels people to move away from the doomed, which accounted for the invincible distance, increasing with the years, which stretched between himself and his contemporaries.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of thousands of his contemporaries believed likewise.†   (source)
  • When Esteban Trueba realized that behind his back these Contemporaries and Eponyms were breathing through their navels and taking off their clothes on the slightest pretext, he lost his patience and kicked them all out of his house, threatening them with his cane and shouting that he would call the police.†   (source)
  • If you are conscious to yourself that you possess more knowledge upon some subjects than others of your standing, reflect that you have had greater opportunities of seeing the world, and obtaining a knowledge of mankind than any of your contemporaries.†   (source)
  • Like her seventeenth-century contemporaries, Anna did not know what plague was or how it spread.†   (source)
  • He didn't believe in ghost mail from the Other Side, which probably made him unique among his contemporaries in this New Age City of Angels.†   (source)
  • In the eyes of his contemporaries, he was a man who had committed the one unforgivable sin: he was proud of his wealth.†   (source)
  • It's what makes us different from our contemporaries in other colleges.†   (source)
  • Unlike many of his contemporaries—Eve knew him to be in his sixties—he had opted to let his hair gray naturally.†   (source)
  • As graduation approached I found that the majority of my contemporaries were assured of excellent research jobs while I seemed to have nothing particular to offer in the biological marketplace.†   (source)
  • The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.†   (source)
  • They were better read and better bred than most of their contemporaries.†   (source)
  • Faust became a scientist thanks to the mistakes of his predecessors and contemporaries.†   (source)
  • I am glad for that slow physical development that widened the difference between her and her contemporaries, though she suffered over it.†   (source)
  • Although it never conquered him, his contemporaries observed his self-absorption, his sensitive and, on occasions, morose nature.†   (source)
  • But from his willful indifference to realities which were obvious to quite ordinary contemporaries, it seems all too probable that he had it.†   (source)
  • The voice which had called her attention was that of the reverend and famous John Wilson, the eldest clergyman of Boston, a great scholar, like most of his contemporaries in the profession, and withal a man of kind and genial spirit.   (source)
    contemporaries = people who live or lived at the same time
  • The old clergyman, nurtured at the rich bosom of the English Church, had a long established and legitimate taste for all good and comfortable things, and however stern he might show himself in the pulpit, or in his public reproof of such transgressions as that of Hester Prynne, still, the genial benevolence of his private life had won him warmer affection than was accorded to any of his professional contemporaries.   (source)
  • The oldest boy in Miss Blunt's sixth grade was nearly nineteen, and he had three contemporaries.†   (source)
  • We were contemporaries, and she consulted me on many cases.†   (source)
  • The only bright and vital thing about you is that you are my contemporaries and friends!†   (source)
  • Lawrence shared with many of his contemporaries a fascination with ancient myths, particularly those of the wasteland and various fertility cults.†   (source)
  • It's grown people who always believe the worst, she thought, confident that her contemporaries believed no more nor less than what Jem and Hank had circulated.†   (source)
  • The complaints of old age, which he endured better than his contemporaries because he had known them since his youth, all attacked at the same time.†   (source)
  • When it came to acquiring certain knowledge, many of his contemporaries voiced a total philosophic skepticism.†   (source)
  • They were patronized by their married contemporaries, they were vaguely felt sorry for, and were produced to date any stray extra man who happened to be visiting their friends.†   (source)
  • Magnifico and Gerineldo, contemporaries of Aureliano but more skilled in the ways of the world, drank methodically with the women seated on their laps.†   (source)
  • I was sorely puzzled by the paradox that many of my contemporaries tended to shy as far away from living things as they could get, and chose to restrict themselves instead to the aseptic atmosphere of laboratories where they used dead — often very dead — animal material as their subject matter.†   (source)
  • Yet their failures, if they can be called failures, were the result of their own undeviating devotion to what they considered to be the public interest and the result of the inability of their contemporaries to match the high standards of honor and rectitude that they brought to public life.†   (source)
  • But it was his extraordinary head that contemporaries found so memorable, with the features Carlyle described for all to remember: "The tanned complexion, the amorphous crag-like face; the dull black eyes under the precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces needing only to be blown; the mastiff mouth accurately closed."†   (source)
  • It will be said, no doubt, that these habits are not peculiar to our town; really all our contemporaries are much the same.†   (source)
  • Lincoln's democracy was not broad enough to transcend color lines, but on this score it had more latitude than the democracy professed by many of his neighbors and contemporaries.†   (source)
  • The good things of life had come to him too early - the respect of his contemporaries, a safe livelihood.†   (source)
  • There were two girls there, contemporaries of Julia's; they all seemed involved in the management of the ball.†   (source)
  • Her contemporaries, the young wives, mothers and widows, loved her because she had suffered what they had suffered, had not become embittered and always lent them a sympathetic ear.†   (source)
  • He must have known that Sutpen now knew his secret—if Bon, until he saw Sutpen's reaction to it, ever looked upon it as a cause for secrecy, certainly not as a valid objection to marriage with a white woman—a situation in which probably all his contemporaries who could afford it were likewise involved and which it would no more have occurred to him to mention to his bride or wife or to her family than he would have told them the secrets of a fraternal organization which he had joined…†   (source)
  • She fitted up a studio in one of the downstairs rooms, where the daughters and granddaughters of Colonel Sartoris' contemporaries were sent to her with the same regularity and in the same spirit that they were sent to church on Sundays with a twenty-five-cent piece for the collection plate.†   (source)
  • The testimony of his contemporaries proclaims—and his life fully confirms—his metaphysical and mystical interests.†   (source)
  • As a matter of fact, when you read some of the plays of his contemporaries you see how much purer he is than they are.†   (source)
  • They are contemporaries of Chance's.†   (source)
  • There was the scandal of her father; that slight, inherited stain upon her brightness that seemed deepened by something in her own way of life—waywardness and willfulness, a less disciplined habit than most of her contemporaries'; but for that, who knows?†   (source)
  • These men had said that Northern industrialism was brutal 12 Historians are in general agreement with such contemporaries of Lincoln as Clay, Webster, Douglas, and Hammond that the natural limits of slavery expansion in the continental United States had already been reached.†   (source)
  • …and arranged a curiously homogeneous little body of writing—poetry, letters, scraps of a journal, an unpublished essay or two, which all exhaled the same high-spirited, serious, chivalrous, other-worldly air and the letters from their contemporaries, written after their deaths, all in varying degrees of articulateness, told the same tale of men who were, in all the full flood of academic and athletic success, of popularity and the promise of great rewards ahead, seen somehow as…†   (source)
  • "I don't pretend to have contributed anything to the amusement of my contemporaries."†   (source)
  • They are tolerably depraved, my contemporaries!†   (source)
  • He is not fed, sheltered, clothed, warmed, like his contemporaries.†   (source)
  • It has been said that Marmaduke deduced his origin from the contemporaries and friends of Penn.†   (source)
  • They endeavor to amend their contemporaries, but they do not quit fellowship with them.†   (source)
  • The men of the sixteenth century are almost as well known to us as our contemporaries.†   (source)
  • It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries.†   (source)
  • We can understand that the matter seemed like that to contemporaries.†   (source)
  • I trace amongst our contemporaries two contrary notions which are equally injurious.†   (source)
  • I was walking in the very place where contemporaries of early man had walked!†   (source)
  • "I really think," he had once said, "that I am not more depraved than most of my contemporaries.†   (source)
  • But to the old countess those contemporaries of hers seemed to be the only serious and real society.†   (source)
  • I use these old names, but the men I speak of are my contemporaries.†   (source)
  • The remark I here apply to America may indeed be addressed to almost all our contemporaries.†   (source)
  • A human being lives out not only his personal life as an individual, but also, consciously or subconsciously, the lives of his epoch and contemporaries; and although he may regard the general and impersonal foundations of his existence as unequivocal givens and take them for granted, having as little intention of ever subjecting them to critique as our good Hans Castorp himself had, it is nevertheless quite possible that he senses his own moral well-being to be somehow impaired by the…†   (source)
  • The slicker seemed distributed through school, always a little wiser and shrewder than his contemporaries, managing some team or other, and keeping his cleverness carefully concealed.†   (source)
  • "Now we're coming to hard facts," he thought, conscious in himself of the same instinctive recoil that he had so often criticised in his mother and her contemporaries.†   (source)
  • Byron was as little of a philosopher as Peter the Great: both were instances of that rare and useful, but unedifying variation, an energetic genius born without the prejudices or superstitions of his contemporaries.†   (source)
  • But finding herself free from the scrutiny of this Wagnerian, who was sitting, at some distance, in a group of her own contemporaries, Mme. de Cambremer let herself drift upon a stream of exquisite memories and sensations.†   (source)
  • He bore a reputation for wisdom rather than skill—leaving the active practice of medicine to his assistants and younger contemporaries—and was much sought for in matters of consultation.†   (source)
  • Philip was born a generation after this great book was published, and much that horrified its contemporaries had passed into the feeling of the time, so that he was able to accept it with a joyful heart.†   (source)
  • Only a wall divided him from those happy young contemporaries of his with whom he shared a common mental life; men who had nothing to do from morning till night but to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.†   (source)
  • "Ah, Jane Merry is one of US," said Mrs. Archer sighing, as if it were not such an enviable thing to be in an age when ladies were beginning to flaunt abroad their Paris dresses as soon as they were out of the Custom House, instead of letting them mellow under lock and key, in the manner of Mrs. Archer's contemporaries.†   (source)
  • He had been away from the hospital for so long that he found himself very largely among new people; the men of different years had little to do with one another, and his contemporaries were now mostly qualified: some had left to take up assistantships or posts in country hospitals and infirmaries, and some held appointments at St. Luke's.†   (source)
  • Mackenzie, Chesterton, Galsworthy, Bennett, had sunk in his appreciation from sagacious, life-saturated geniuses to merely diverting contemporaries.†   (source)
  • Years afterward, when he went back to St. Regis', he seemed to have forgotten the successes of sixth-form year, and to be able to picture himself only as the unadjustable boy who had hurried down corridors, jeered at by his rabid contemporaries mad with common sense.†   (source)
  • The H.P. with whom Philip came in contact was a dapper little man, excessively conscious of his importance: he treated the clerks with condescension and patently resented the familiarity of older students who had been his contemporaries and did not use him with the respect he felt his present position demanded.†   (source)
  • She walked briskly in the brisk air, the color rose in her cheeks, and her straw bonnet (which our contemporaries might look at with conjectural curiosity as at an obsolete form of basket) fell a little backward.†   (source)
  • I have alluded to him, Reader, because I think I see in him an intellect profounder and more unique than his contemporaries have yet recognised; because I regard him as the first social regenerator of the day — as the very master of that working corps who would restore to rectitude the warped system of things; because I think no commentator on his writings has yet found the comparison that suits him, the terms which rightly characterise his talent.†   (source)
  • The fact, even when most necessary to all appearances, even when most thoroughly accepted by contemporaries, if it exist only as a fact, and if it contain only too little of right, or none at all, is infallibly destined to become, in the course of time, deformed, impure, perhaps, even monstrous.†   (source)
  • Thus, Tellson's, in its day, like greater places of business, its contemporaries, had taken so many lives, that, if the heads laid low before it had been ranged on Temple Bar instead of being privately disposed of, they would probably have excluded what little light the ground floor had, in a rather significant manner.†   (source)
  • "These composers," Captain Nemo answered me, "are the contemporaries of Orpheus, because in the annals of the dead, all chronological differences fade; and I'm dead, professor, quite as dead as those friends of yours sleeping six feet under!"†   (source)
  • Or rather, perhaps, the difference was mainly superficial; he was to them like the poet of a new school who takes his contemporaries by storm; who is not really new, but is the first to articulate what all his listeners have felt, though but dumbly till then.†   (source)
  • Levin found himself, like the majority of his contemporaries, in the vaguest position in regard to religion.†   (source)
  • Your father, a man of the last century, evidently stands above our contemporaries who so condemn this measure which merely reestablishes natural justice.†   (source)
  • I am happy to have under my charge now the daughters of many of those who were your contemporaries at my establishment—what pleasure it would give me if your own beloved young ladies had need of my instructive superintendence!†   (source)
  • She was not abnormally deficient, and she mustered learning enough to acquit herself respectably in conversation with her contemporaries, among whom it must be avowed, however, that she occupied a secondary place.†   (source)
  • "Would you account the fall of a corner-stone, from the foundations of the edifice of learning, a matter of indifference to contemporaries or to posterity?" interrupted Obed.†   (source)
  • But among Tom's contemporaries, whose fathers cast their sons on clerical instruction to find them ignorant after many days, there were many far less lucky than Tom Tulliver.†   (source)
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  • [Abstract] Based on modern and contemporary history, there are two ways in which the results of fundamental scientific research can be converted into practical applications: gradualistic mode and saltatory mode.†   (source)
  • Other than Mayakovsky, Maxim Gorky had been Mishka's greatest contemporary hero.†   (source)
  • The plaid suits with large collars, the bushy mustaches and overdue haircuts, and the thick knotted ties were all obviously stylish back when he went to Oxford but looked a little funny through contemporary eyes.†   (source)
  • The page listed a bibliography of over fifty titles—books by well-known historians, some contemporary, some centuries old—many of them academic bestsellers.†   (source)
  • For years I'd wanted to implement a project to change the way we talk about racial history and contextualize contemporary race issues.†   (source)
  • This is a picture of a contemporary animal.†   (source)
  • They don't get it when it's contemporary.†   (source)
  • Contemporary arenas, they were called.†   (source)
  • She had just returned to her part-time job at the Davis contemporary art gallery on Rosewood's main drag, and she was on the mailing list for all the benefits.†   (source)
  • The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up.†   (source)
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  • As you can see, it includes queens and kings and pharaohs from centuries past, as well as contemporary billionaires, such as Warren Buffett and Carlos Slim.†   (source)
  • He wrote to friends and colleagues saying, "Someone should coin a contemporary phrase and say, at least for the moment, 'The world has gone nuts over tissue culture and its possibilities.'†   (source)
  • "We would like to assure you that as soon as our business is resumed announcements will be made in all fashionable magazines and color supplements, when our clients will once again be able to select from all that's best in contemporary geography."†   (source)
  • The house may have been Victorian-era style, but the entire inside rocked out in contemporary.†   (source)
  • On the fiction table were an assortment of novels, most of them contemporary literary fiction by authors not well known by the masses.†   (source)
  • Take the case of two contemporary novels.†   (source)
  • Finishing the new book, a contemporary novel about a car-thief, he had remembered typing the final sentence of Misery's Child: 'So Ian and Geoffrey left the Little Dunthorpe churchyard together, supporting themselves in their sorrow, determined to find their lives again.'†   (source)
  • I call this class Contemporary American Thought.†   (source)
  • She did Patti as a child-hero in a contemporary movie, the only person on screen who is unawed by mysterious throbbing phenomena.†   (source)
  • Humbling along without a care in the world), that the whole of contemporary history, the World Wars, the War of Dreams, the Man on the Moon, science, literature, philosophy, the pursuit of knowledge—was no more than a blink of the Earth Woman's eye.†   (source)
  • She had a reputation for being formidably intelligent, and in those days one often tended to hear of how she had humiliated this or that learned gentleman at dinner over some important contemporary issue.†   (source)
  • I feel that sometimes"—get this—"I am a little out of touch with contemporary teaching, and, just as important, the students who come before me."†   (source)
  • All Things Flow A contemporary of Parmenides was Heraditus (c.†   (source)
  • Ophelia had left Paul several contemporary novels.†   (source)
  • In recent years, Jeanne has visited many dozens of schools, from California and Oregon to Texas and Washington, D.C., and she has discovered that, for readers of many backgrounds, the story of a young girl who finds herself separated from the larger society for reasons she does not yet understand can have a strong contemporary resonance.†   (source)
  • One last thing: Hiram, my editor, felt the Miracle Max section was too Jewish in sound, too contemporary.†   (source)
  • During one session, a contemporary of mine, Nyathi Khongisa, who was considered an extremely clever fellow, condemned Smuts as a racist.†   (source)
  • Contemporary observations are changing our understanding of planetary systems, and it is important that our nomenclature for objects reflect our current understanding.†   (source)
  • They bought a contemporary Cape house with dormer windows, with a lot of land around it, meadow and forest, where the dogs could run and the children could play.†   (source)
  • I was glad Taa said, Hold on, because from what I'd seen so far, the place had been furnished in Contemporary Dominican Tacky.†   (source)
  • It seemed almost contemporary, unlike the music he usually played, but even to her ears it sounded … unfinished somehow.†   (source)
  • One chair seemed vaguely medieval, while a low ottoman by the fire was more contemporary and the stocked bookshelf against the far window reminded me of movies set in Italy.†   (source)
  • It was English cut, neither conservative nor on the leading edge of contemporary fashion.†   (source)
  • The second round of the competition required two contemporary solos.†   (source)
  • And in it all was his own father, the second Macon Dead, their contemporary, who was strong as an ox, could ride bareback and barefoot, who, they agreed, outran, outplowed, outshot, outpicked, outrode them all.†   (source)
  • At that moment, overcome with the tender brutality of physical existence--with "the insoluble contradiction of being animals cursed with self-reflection, and moral beings cursed with animal instincts"--Jacob launches into a lament, a single, ecstatic paragraph, unbroken over five pages, that Time magazine called one of the most "incandescent, haunting passages" in contemporary literature.†   (source)
  • The Green Knight ties the Arthurian myth to contemporary fiction via Dickens's Tale of Two Cities, as, of course, does Magwich.†   (source)
  • 'The dim lights of the house were mandatory, and the paintings appreciated in full, added to almost nightly when some vampire brought a new engraving or picture by a contemporary artist into the house.†   (source)
  • A monstrously huge oil painting, a portrait of a terrifyingly beautiful woman with glowing gold eyes, hung over the stairs, which weren't contemporary anymore, but a classic flying staircase seemingly supported only by the air itself.†   (source)
  • The slightly uppity Duke coeds were among the very finest and most "contemporary" American women.†   (source)
  • So, at the end of a day's work filled with boisterous shouting and relaxed chatter, they would all shut themselves up within their four walls and, surrounded by contemporary furniture emanating bad taste like a cold draft, stare at the refulgent television screen.†   (source)
  • Not just a sense of something being empty, but almost hollow, even though the apartment was fully furnished with sleek, contemporary furniture.†   (source)
  • After the applause dies down, the people around me stand up, they talk about the concert, about the beauty of the Bach, the mournfulness of the Elgar, the risk—that paid off—of throwing in the contemporary John Cage piece.†   (source)
  • They had been very good, and he had learned a lot from them about the problems of contemporary Judaism.†   (source)
  • Pastor McElwain read from Psalms and dwelled on the wisdom of Solomon, then two teenage boys with pimples and a guitar strummed and hummed through something contemporary, a strained song Seth would not have appreciated.†   (source)
  • He knew every hymn in The Antique and Contemporary Hymn Book, and sang his way through them loudly and joyously when he was on watch, which had been one of the reasons for the mutiny.†   (source)
  • In the words of a contemporary Loyalist chronicler of the war, "Joshua had a handsome wife.†   (source)
  • Fräklund, who had been a contemporary of Hedström's father, had suggested to Armansky that they give him a chance.†   (source)
  • Beyond lay the bedroom, furnished with bone-colored contemporary upholstery.†   (source)
  • After twenty-five years of contemporary Chicano literature, there are still only a few Chicano writers who publish with the big trade publishers.†   (source)
  • The subject he had taught in Indianapolis was Contemporary Problems in Western Civilization.†   (source)
  • They quote John Ciardi's introduction to the Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage: "It will not do to resist uncompromisingly.†   (source)
  • He had rented extravagant rooms in Cambridge and simply eliminated the academic element of university, making close friends among the students, reading contemporary novels, boating, and making a name for himself as someone who knew exactly what was valuable and interesting in the Cambridge circles of the 1920s.†   (source)
  • I make it through Contemporary Lit, still puzzling over it.†   (source)
  • It is an old story yet ever-contemporary.†   (source)
  • By now Max was accustomed to the absence of television, telephones, electric lights, computers, and a host of other contemporary conveniences.†   (source)
  • "It's so abstract, so contemporary, and a really creative contrast against the antiquity."†   (source)
  • Our building was a five-story professional office, trapezoidal, contemporary, with smoked windows and a blush-red granite facade, the structure nestled in among other office buildings in a large, well-wooded corporate park in Purchase, New York, fifteen or so miles north of the city.†   (source)
  • I'm in your Contemporary Poetry class.†   (source)
  • She's changed from her bathing suit into a cream-colored, very contemporary linen dress that leaves her shoulders bare and makes her waist look tiny.†   (source)
  • This book is a departure from the contemporary nonfiction I have written for more than a decade and from the daily news analysis that I do on television.†   (source)
  • We get one contemporary view of Socrates from playwright Aristophanes.†   (source)
  • So often the contemporary church is a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound.†   (source)
  • The room was a showpiece of contemporary Asian design, with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the waterworks and manicured shrubbery in the garden.†   (source)
  • In that case, they used the fact that they were a downtrodden culture as an excuse, but I'm coming to the conclusion, based on the way that they treat the Horvath, that it's some sort of automatic submission in contemporary urban liberal culture.†   (source)
  • Contemporary ranch with extras galore.†   (source)
  • Even to-day, three thousand years later, as we channel-surf over so much live coverage of contemporary savagery, highly informed but nevertheless in danger of growing immune, familiar to the point of overfamiliarity with old newsreels of the concentration camp and the gulag, Homer's image can still bring us to our senses.†   (source)
  • "His and hers is one of the cutest contemporary concepts," she heard him say.†   (source)
  • One must go to contemporary observers in Europe for a non-Texan opinion as to the nature of the tyranny that raised need for revolt.†   (source)
  • The fact is that this type of art is wholly out of keeping with the spirit, the essence, the motivating force of contemporary art.†   (source)
  • One contemporary called Webster "a living lie, because no man on earth could be so great as he looked."†   (source)
  • And the droppings of compys are readily broken down by contemporary bacteria.†   (source)
  • But it dramatizes something important in looking at any contemporary American thought.†   (source)
  • They might have no predators in the contemporary world, no checks on their growth.†   (source)
  • That's why I like Lemry's Contemporary American Thought class, which we call CAT for short.†   (source)
  • Tell me about your Contemporary American Thought class.†   (source)
  • The Hutterites, obviously, didn't get this idea from contemporary evolutionary psychology.†   (source)
  • This was contemporary earth organisms, taken into space by inadequately sterilized spacecraft.†   (source)
  • It spoke of ease and breeze and being contemporary and having something others did not.†   (source)
  • He was pacing one of the aisles, his arms crossed, glancing at the contemporary titles.†   (source)
  • Helen soon knew traditional from contemporary, split-level from ranch from center-entrance Colonial.†   (source)
  • In the second round we performed a contemporary work Ben had choreographed for us.†   (source)
  • Bernini was a contemporary of Galileo.†   (source)
  • And the visual accompaniment is a mystifying blend of contemporary, carnal encounters with unidentified young boys intercut with black-and-white, documentary footage from the Vietnam War.†   (source)
  • Although few cartographic corporations acknowledge their existence, copyright traps remain a common feature even in contemporary maps.†   (source)
  • The truth is—and I believe I can speak honestly to you about this—I feel that sometimes I am a little out of touch with contemporary teaching, and, just as important, the students who come before me these days.†   (source)
  • A mere symptom or two would suffice for the contemporary audience, to whom the symptoms were all too familiar.†   (source)
  • Galileo Galilei, who was roughly contemporary with Kepler, also used a telescope to observe the heavenly bodies.†   (source)
  • Contemporary neurological, psychological, and sociological evidence has established that children are impaired by immature judgment, an underdeveloped capacity for self-regulation and responsibility, vulnerability to negative influences and outside pressures, and a lack of control over their own impulses and their environment.†   (source)
  • The influential English poet who wrote Paradise Lost was a contemporary of Galileo's and a savant who conspiracy buffs put at the top of their list of Illuminati suspects.†   (source)
  • I remember a contemporary of mine asking me—with a killing lack of humor—if I didn't sometimes think that our whole generation took itself too seriously; and didn't I sometimes wonder if it was only the marijuana that made us more aware?†   (source)
  • In Fugard's contemporary reworking, Henry is Harold, Hally to the black pals with whom he loafs and plays.†   (source)
  • Following the heady rediscovery of man and nature in the Renaissance, the need to assemble contemporary thought into one coherent philosophical system again presented itself.†   (source)
  • G. K. Chesterton, a mystery writer and contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle, has a story, "The Arrow of Heaven" (1926), in which a man is killed by an arrow.†   (source)
  • In the contemporary world, only very small mammals, like the cobra-fighting mongoose, had such quick responses.†   (source)
  • There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-embracing our final decadence.†   (source)
  • As true children of their time, the Stoics were distinctly "cosmopolitan," in that they were more receptive to contemporary culture than the "barrel philosophers" (the Cynics).†   (source)
  • Critics say the light is too artificial, and too contemporary for such an old building; but surely the overhead fan is contemporary, too—and not propelled by Mother Nature—and no one complains about the fan.†   (source)
  • But contemporary scientists documented the effort behind a kill-hours of patient stalking before the final lunge-as well as the frequency of failure.†   (source)
  • West Side Story famously reworks Romeo and Juliet, which resurfaces again in the 1990s, in a movie featuring contemporary teen culture and automatic pistols.†   (source)
  • Thirteen of us have signed up for Lemry's baby, an elective class called Contemporary American Thought.†   (source)
  • We look only at the sections of the strand that differ from animal to animal, or from contemporary DNA.†   (source)
  • She possessed all the up-to-date information that often passes for intelligence among people who make a daily and extensive habit of The, New York Times—and the available, softer gossip—and she had oodles of time to consume all this contemporary news.†   (source)
  • John Barth discusses an Egyptian papyrus complaining that all the stories have been told and that therefore nothing remains for the contemporary writer but to retell them.†   (source)
  • And you believe that Eric and Steve, combined with this Contemporary American Thought class, drove him over the edge?†   (source)
  • Djuna Barnes, a contemporary of Lawrence and Joyce, investigates the world of sexual desire, fulfillment, and frustration in her dark classic, Nightwood (1937).†   (source)
  • At the end of last class I asked each of you to be ready with a subject for your class presentation—something that addresses a contemporary social or psychological or spiritual dilemma.†   (source)
  • If you read it as the latter, that is, if you don't adjust your eyes and mind to transport you from contemporary reality to Baldwin's 1957, whatever the ending has to offer will be pretty well lost on you.†   (source)
  • Mom keeps me supplied with the finest in musical electronic hardware as long as I agree to buy one CD of songs recorded between the years 1956 and 1975 for every contemporary one.†   (source)
  • Many modern and postmodern texts are essentially ironic, in which the allusions to biblical sources are used not to heighten continuities between the religious tradition and the contemporary moment but to illustrate a disparity or disruption.†   (source)
  • The BBC series Masterpiece Theatre has recast Othello as a contemporary story of black police commissioner John Othello, his lovely white wife Dessie, and his friend Ben Jago, deeply resentful at being passed over for promotion.†   (source)
  • If literature seems to be too comfortably patriarchal, a novelist like the late Angela Carter or a poet like the contemporary Eavan Boland will come along and upend things just to remind readers and writers of the falseness of our established assumptions.†   (source)
  • On her collar I see she has a small, rectangular button with a very contemporary-looking portrait of Jesus, under which it reads Luv Conquers All.†   (source)
  • Although contemporary in design there was an underlying sense of function and an absence of eye-pleasing touches.†   (source)
  • "A jeu d'esprit," says Charna, "which takes on the Group of Seven and reconstructs their vision of landscape in the light of contemporary experiment and postmodern pastiche."†   (source)
  • She had dirty blond hair that was a little curly and she bit her nails and her favorite song when she was ten was 'Stuck with You' by Huey Lewis and the News and her mother was a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art and when she grew up she wanted to be a veterinarian."†   (source)
  • With an ear for contemporary melodies and a voice reminiscent of Nat King Cole's, Peterson could perform any song requested and did well enough to perform in restaurants as far-flung as Atlanta, Charlotte, and Washington, D.C. Jane could spend hours listening to him, and I know Peterson was touched by her almost motherly pride in him.†   (source)
  • Hurst Co., London, 1998), and yet they made up a force that was the equal of every contemporary body of male elite soldiers from among the colonial powers.†   (source)
  • The character of nineteenth-century flats competed against the utilitarianism of contemporary neuterness; they did not lose.†   (source)
  • It wasn't some contemporary fake.†   (source)
  • Twenty years ago when Chicano writers began to create poetry and stories that reflected our contemporary reality, we were met with immediate hostility.†   (source)
  • Existing without gimmickry, without the infernal swindles and capering of so much of contemporary cuisine, barbecue is truth; it is history and home, and the only thing I don't believe is that I'll ever get enough.†   (source)
  • Because most contemporary male movie stars and directors indulged in a perpetually adolescent lifestyle, blue jeans were acceptable attire even at many tony establishments in Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • The bottom floor housed contemporary fiction only, while the top floor held classic fiction and nonfiction, additional titles by contemporary authors, and unique collections.†   (source)
  • The buildings, particularly the ones for the prison staff, were clean and contemporary; but the housing for the prisoners was archaic and dirty.†   (source)
  • Last fall, in her English class, she'd had to read a novel by a contemporary author, and she'd chosen "The Silence of the Lambs."†   (source)
  • But there is an absence of an element whose lack would never have been found in Rome's bloody arena, much less tolerated in the contemporary great stadiums of the world.†   (source)
  • Lenny did a fair approximation of a street preacher's voice, which was surprising, which was very unhip in fact because even if he'd started in the business as a mimic, doing Cagney and Bogart with German accents, and even if he updated frequently, doing contemporary types of every persuasion, it was not a white comic's option these days to do a black man's voice, was it?†   (source)
  • When he died, his funeral was attended, in the words of one contemporary newspaper account, by "troops of people."†   (source)
  • His contemporary Daniel Defoe wanted to police the language to the extent that coining a new word would be a crime as grave as counterfeiting money.†   (source)
  • He emanated the aura of such advanced age that one could suppose he might have predated the great Mesopotamian cities of antiquity, the Chinese Empire, and several of the lesser mountain ranges like the Andes and the Alps (being merely a contemporary of the Himalayas).†   (source)
  • If proposes that many men want the freedom to assert their masculine identities, but contemporary society continually frustrates that.†   (source)
  • While no contemporary drawings or paintings of individual soldiers have survived, a fair idea of how they looked emerges from the descriptions in notices posted of deserters.†   (source)
  • Another good discussion of the issue is: Daniel Wegner, "Transactive Memory: A Contemporary Analysis of the Group Mind," in Brian Mullen and George Goethals (eds.†   (source)
  • With a good eye for art, he had begun early to assemble his own collection, which by now included works by the contemporary Italian painter Canaletto, as well as watercolors and drawings by such old masters as Poussin and Raphael.†   (source)
  • Mqhayi was actually an imbongi, apraise-singer, a kind of oral historian who marks contemporary events and history with poetry that is of special meaning to his people.†   (source)
  • However, for my contemporary solo, I had never received so many curtain calls in my entire dance career.†   (source)
  • John Baugh, a Stanford University linguist, himself African American, said that these "are the very origins of contemporary African American English."†   (source)
  • Looking at the New York Times through Sheidlower's eyes did reveal the kind of language he described, with the stamp of contemporary informality and relaxed grammar.†   (source)
  • The story of Sima is beautifully told by the anthropologist Donald H. Rubinstein in several papers, among them: "Love and Suffering: Adolescent Socialization and Suicide in Micronesia," Contemporary Pacific (Spring 1 995), vol. no. I, pp. 21-53.†   (source)
  • About a year after we married, she was finally accepted as a dancer by a small contemporary dance company in Oklahoma.†   (source)
  • I maintained that while there were no tigers to be found in contemporary Africa, there was a Xhosa word for tiger, a word different from the one for leopard, and that if the word existed in our language, the creature must have once existed in Africa.†   (source)
  • American publishers boast long lists of contemporary writers with international reputations, such as Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, E. L. Doctorow, and Pat Conroy—to name a few.†   (source)
  • Many of the features common to contemporary Black English are absent from the "slave" tapes, for instance, what linguists call "the invariant be" as in they be working, and the "deleted copula," leaving out the auxiliary verb in they working.†   (source)
  • According to a contemporary account, as Lamar hissed out, "it was a vulture," his right arm straightened out and the index finger pointed directly at Hoar.†   (source)
  • We are faced with the rise and spread of a form of psychic illness that is typical of our time and is directly related to the contemporary upheavals.†   (source)
  • Soon he was to take his place among contemporary writers, university professors, and philosophers of the revolution, a man who shared their ideological concern but had nothing in common with them except their terminology.†   (source)
  • His own thirst for knowledge, particularly about the unsettled West, was unquenchable, and led him not only to books but also, a contemporary tells us, to "hunters and trappers, scouts, wild half-breeds, Indian chiefs, and Jesuit missionaries."†   (source)
  • He could not receive the Presidential nomination he had so long desired; but neither could he ever put to rest the assertion, which was not only expressed by his contemporary critics but subsequently by several nineteenth-century historians, that his real objective in the Seventh of March speech was a bid for Southern support for the Presidency.†   (source)
  • I met an old acquaintance of school-days, a contemporary of mine named Jorkins.†   (source)
  • Another, The Nolan Volume of Contemporary Poetry.†   (source)
  • It might have looked in hideous meditation from Notre Dame, his contemporary church.†   (source)
  • ' [* A SURVEY OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC, Cecil Gray, P. 246.†   (source)
  • He had been more her contemporary than Scarlett's and she had been devoted to him.†   (source)
  • It's a good live ever-growing contemporary education.†   (source)
  • No, if the masses crowd into the Tretyakov (Moscow's museum of contemporary Russian art: kitsch), it is largely because they have been conditioned to shun 'formalism' and to admire 'socialist realism.'†   (source)
  • I hungered for a grasp of the framework of contemporary living, for a knowledge of the forms of life about me, for eyes to see the bony structures of personality, for theories to light up the shadows of conduct.†   (source)
  • The language spoken was French—the time had already gone by when Cardinals could conveniently discuss contemporary matters in Latin.†   (source)
  • This had to be so, because no modern writer of the kind I am discussing–no one capable of using phrases like "objective consideration of contemporary phenomena"–would ever tabulate his thoughts in that precise and detailed way.†   (source)
  • …with the crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier and the ladies sibilant and macabre; and the very old men —some in their brushed Confederate uniforms—on the porch and the lawn, talking of Miss Emily as if she had been a contemporary of theirs, believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever…†   (source)
  • As a contemporary instance he cites, rather significantly, the Dreyfus case, over which the whole world grew violently excited for no sufficient reason.†   (source)
  • Which seems to me, when I look about at my contemporary scene, no exorbitant gift from nature or circumstance to demand—'" "Will you wait?"†   (source)
  • He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" of "false", but as "academic" or "practical", "outworn" or "contemporary", "conventional" or "ruthless".†   (source)
  • The most recent prophet and savior of this very ancient Indian sect was Mahavira, a contemporary of the Buddha (sixth century B.c.).†   (source)
  • He had been a contemporary of Metternich and was an old man with white hair and mustache and beautiful manners.†   (source)
  • His second, then, is to return from that abyss to the plane of contemporary life, there to serve as a human transformer of demiurgic potentials.†   (source)
  • Taste has varied, but not beyond certain limits; contemporary connoisseurs agree with the eighteenth-century Japanese that Hokusai was one of the greatest artists of his time; we even agree with the ancient Egyptians that Third and Fourth Dynasty art was the most worthy of being selected as their paragon by those who came after.†   (source)
  • There was something supremely preposterous in the idea of Bridey as a painter of action pictures; he was usually preposterous yet somehow achieved a certain dignity by his remoteness and agelessness; he was still half-child, already half-veteran; there seemed no spark of contemporary life in him; he had a kind of massive rectitude and impermeability, an indifference to the world, which compelled respect.†   (source)
  • …helped her break it in with axes and they found him, who had seen his sole means of support looted by the defenders of his cause, even if he had repudiated it and them, with three days' uneaten food beside his pallet bed as if he had spent the three days in a mental balancing of his terrestrial accounts, found the result and proved it and then turned upon his contemporary scene of folly and outrage and injustice the dead and consistent impassivity of a cold and inflexible disapproval.†   (source)
  • Scarlett had no awe of her father and felt him more her contemporary than her sisters, for jumping fences and keeping it a secret from his wife gave him a boyish pride and guilty glee that matched her own pleasure in outwitting Mammy.†   (source)
  • The result has been a further debasement of the drama–Tolstoy is careful to include his own plays when condemning the contemporary stage–and a further corruption of the prevailing moral outlook.†   (source)
  • Here it is in modern English: Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account.†   (source)
  • And here is La Bruyère: Les femmes sont extrêmes, elles sont meilleures ou pires que les hommes—— a direct contradiction by keen observers who were contemporary.†   (source)
  • But aside from the fact that most of our best contemporary novelists have gone to school with the avant-garde, it is significant that Gide's most ambitious book is a novel about the writing of a novel, and that Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake seem to be, above all, as one French critic says, the reduction of experience to expression for the sake of expression, the expression mattering more than what is being expressed.†   (source)
  • Shakespeare, a tattered volume of Leaves of Grass, the three scrapbooks --The Nolan Volume of Contemporary Poetry, The Nolan Book of Classical Poems, and The Book of Annie Laurie.†   (source)
  • During the tenth century, a brillianr period of romance production, centering primarily in Ireland, converted the inheritance into an important contemporary force.†   (source)
  • I knew what she meant, and in that moment felt as though I had shaken off some of the dust and grit of ten dry years; then and always, however she spoke to me, in half sentences, single words, stock phrases of contemporary jargon, in scarcely perceptible movements of eyes or lips or hands, however inexpressible her thought, however quick and far it had glanced from the matter in hand, however deep it had plunged, as it often did, straight from the surface to the depths, I knew; even…†   (source)
  • And so, putting, her back on the shelf, I turned to the other great lady, the Duchess whom Lamb loved, hare-brained, fantastical Margaret of Newcastle, her elder, but her contemporary.†   (source)
  • …and Franklin, Vicksburg and Corinth and Atlanta—battles lost not alone because of superior numbers and failing ammunition and stores, but because of generals who should not have been generals, who were generals not through training in contemporary methods or aptitude for learning them, but by the divine right to say to there' conferred upon them by an absolute caste system; or because the generals of it never lived long enough to learn how to fight massed cautious accretionary…†   (source)
  • …arrogating to herself, because it fills her veins also, nourishment from the old blood that crossed uncharted seas and continents and battled wilderness hardships and lurking circumstances and fatalities, with tranquil disregard of whatever onerous carks to leisure and even peace which the preservation of it incurs upon what might be called the contemporary transmutable fountainhead who contrives to keep the crass foodbearing corpuscles sufficiently numerous and healthy in the stream.†   (source)
  • Taliesin, "Chief of the Bards of the West," may have been an actual historical personage of the sixth century A.D., contemporary with the chieftain who became the "King Arthur" of later romance.†   (source)
  • …the rival claims of the pretenders to many thrones; he was not a man of religious habit, but he knew more than most Catholics about their Church; he had friends in the Vatican and could talk at length of policy and appointments, saying which contemporary ecclesiastics were in good favor, which in bad, what recent theological hypothesis was suspect, and how this or that Jesuit or Dominican had skated on thin ice or sailed near the wind in his Lenten discourses; he had everything except…†   (source)
  • This will help us to understand not only the meaning of those images for contemporary life, but also the singleness of the human spirit in its aspirations, powers, vicissitudes, and wisdom.†   (source)
  • The modern psychologist can translate it back to its proper denotations and thus rescue for the contemporary world a rich and eloquent document of the profoundest depths of human character.†   (source)
  • ""3 This is the orthodox teaching of the ancient Tantras: "All of these visualized deities are but symbols representing the various things that occur on the Path";"4 as well as a doctrine of the contemporary psychoanalytical schools.†   (source)
  • Uncomprehended inherited themes, such as that of the Minotaur—the dark and terrible night aspect of an old Egypto-Cretan representation of the incarnate sun god and divine king—were rationalized and reinterpreted to suit contemporary ends.†   (source)
  • For an astounding revelation of the survival in contemporary Melanesia of a symbolic system essentially identical with that of the Egypto-Babylonian, Trojan-Cretan "labyrinth complex" of the second millennium .†   (source)
  • Obviously, this work cannot be wrought by turning back, or away, from what has been accomplished by the modern revolution; for the problem is nothing if not that of rendering the modern world spiritually significant—or rather (phrasing the same principle the other way round) nothing if not that of making it possible for men and women to come to full human maturity through the conditions of contemporary life.†   (source)
  • ALL OF WHICH is far indeed from the contemporary view; for the democratic ideal of the self-determining individual, the invention of the power-driven machine, and the development of the scientific method of research have so transformed human life that the long-inherited, timeless universe of symbols has collapsed.†   (source)
  • …p. r6), which appears in the romance of Lancelot's rescue of Queen Guinevere from the castle of King Death. which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so far as we are unbelievers, or, if believers, in so far as our inherited beliefs fail to represent the real problems of contemporary life) must face alone, or, at best, with only tentative, impromptu, and not often very effective guidance.†   (source)
  • …the popular carnival games of the Whitsuntide Louts, Green Georges, John Barleycorns, and Kostrubonkos, Carrying-out-Winter, Bringing-in-Summer, and Killing of the Christmas Wren have continued the tradition, in a mood of frolic, into our contemporary calendar; and through the Christian church (in the mythology of the Fall and Redemption, Crucifixion, and Resurrection, the "second birth" of baptism, the initiatory blow on the cheek at confirmation, the symbolical eating of the Flesh…†   (source)
  • "He comes here for a rest," said Monsignor confidentially, treating Amory as a contemporary.†   (source)
  • Which may only mean that I have neither been corrupted nor made timid by contemporary experience.†   (source)
  • If I should choose to preach Posterity, Where would you get contemporary fun?†   (source)
  • My hands were touching ruins many thousands of years old, contemporary with prehistoric times!†   (source)
  • All contemporary social crimes have their origin in the partition of Poland.†   (source)
  • Dear me! thought I, how apt history is to reverse contemporary judgments.†   (source)
  • I cried, "to some living man, contemporary with the huge cattle-driver?†   (source)
  • But let us leave the soldier, especially the contemporary soldier, out of the question.†   (source)
  • Opposite was the Duchess of Harley; a lady of admirable good-nature and good temper, much liked by everyone who knew her, and of those ample architectural proportions that in women who are not Duchesses are described by contemporary historians as stoutness.†   (source)
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