Example Sentences

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Despite some design missteps, like overly high slits on apron skirts, the collection resonated with a relaxed confidence, striking a balance between luxury, contemporaneity, and French elegance.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2023

Count on director Bart DeLorenzo to draw out the contemporary parallels through the adventurous contemporaneity of his staging.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2022

But there is a crisis of contemporaneity at the heart of this pretty adaptation, and the trouble begins with its presentation of its heroine.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2022

The immediacy and sudden contemporaneity of the film make one feel the inferno of the Western Front as one never quite has before.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2019

At the same time the sacrament of the Mass affirms ‘the perpetual contemporaneity of The Passion’ and celebrates the ‘marriage of time present with time past’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton