How To Use Contemporaries In A Sentence

Finally, in the formation of an opinion as to the abstract preferableness of one course of action over another, or as to the truth or falsehood or right significance of a proposition, the fact that the majority of one's contemporaries lean in the other direction is naught, and no more than dust in the balance. On Compromise
There are no contemporary estimates of how rapidly and how far literacy spread; nor is it possible for us to quantify it with the data provided by largely innumerate contemporaries.
So far is he from admitting the possibility of any dissiliency between the Divine will and absolute right, that he turns the tables on his opponents, and classes among Atheists those of his contemporaries who maintain that God can command what is contrary to the intrinsic right; that He has no inclination to the good of his creatures; that He can justly doom an innocent being to eternal torments; or that whatever God wills is just because He wills it. A Manual of Moral Philosophy
Anyone who has once taken up the WORD can never again evade it; a writer is not the detached judge of his compatriots and contemporaries, he is an accomplice to all the evil committed in his native land or by his countrymen. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture
His works are second - rate productions , alongside of those of some of his contemporaries.

We are thought of, and not infrequently referred to by our contemporaries, as old-fogyish, and out of date. The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921
The show includes Bouguereau paintings of a water girl; a bather; two gypsies; and a nude winged Cupid, and is fleshed out with paintings and sculptures by his contemporaries, including a striking tondo by Jean-Léon Gérôme. The Shape of Things
Dame Gourlay, with two of her contemporaries, the same who assisted at Alice's late-wake, seated apart upon a flat monument, or "through-stane," sate enviously comparing the shares which had been allotted to them in dividing the dole. The Bride of Lammermoor
This literature would provide society with an image of itself which it could show to the outside world, to contemporaries and to posterity. Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
His contemporaries put him in the same league as a virtuoso pianist, too. Times, Sunday Times
This 30-track anthology explains just why so many of his contemporaries hold Reilly in such regard.
Their pleasure was not happiness, contemporaries charged, but egotism, immorality, indulgence, and vice.
Or I might be on the shady sidewalk with my contemporaries when an ice wagon clattered up.
The first three years of George II's reign, which began in 1727, were afflicted by successive waves of smallpox and influenza-like infections, imprecisely and variously described by contemporaries as agues and fevers.
To be fair to Bodin, the offenses poured out against him by his malicious contemporaries at the time of his adhesion to the League should be analyzed and understood historically.
Christian contemporaries, and that their knowledge was mainly confined to mere commercial notation, an anonymous writer has shown how the modifications of form could be naturally made, in vol.ii. of the _Bath and Bristol Magazine_, pp. 393-412.; the motto being _valent quanti valet_, as well as the title professing it to be wholly "conjectural. Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850
While Moore did more than any of his contemporaries to inspire a new generation to turn to sculpture, Caro took the art form down from its pedestal and opened up the debate as to what it might or might not be.
In my chapter on FDR in American Caesars, I've written of FDR's first term, FDR's empathy with the lot of ordinary Americans was the quality that raised him head and shoulders above his contemporaries. Nigel Hamilton: The Meltdown -- and After
Contemporaries of the last dinosaurs, paddle-limbed mosasaurs, inhabited seas of the Cretaceous period, which ended about 66 million years ago.
He describes the prolific misuse of poetical language by his contemporaries.
The eminence of these works, in particular the Almagest, had been evident already to Ptolemy's contemporaries. this caused an almost total obliteration of the prehistory of the Ptolemaic astronomy.
This however is a non-technical approach to logic, grounded in essentials, in contrast to the sterile conundrums and oversubtle analyses enjoyed by some of Epictetus 'contemporaries. Epictetus
'Cleon' belongs to a grand group of poems, in which Browning shows himself to be, as I've said, the most essentially Christian of living poets -- the poet who, more emphatically than any of his contemporaries have done, has enforced the importance, the indispensableness of a new birth, the being born from above An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
Unlike his contemporaries, he often chose to commission original music for his ballets.
Visually different from most of its contemporaries, and totally different from every other Volvo car, the Volvo PV36, perhaps better known as the Carioca, is an exciting chapter in the Volvo history. The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines
He has outlived many of his contemporaries but survival has come at a price. The Sun
Come to think of it, not so long ago even Puccini was trashed by superior people, who considered his contemporaries decadent, shabby frauds beneath contempt.
My contemporaries were climbing the job ladder and buying houses. Times, Sunday Times
This use of the term, _which was common to him with his contemporaries_, and continued to be common after his time, is illustrated by his remarks on the passage, 'and the Logos was God'; in which he contended, that the Logos was god, in an inferior sense; -- not as we would say God, but _a god_, not _the_ divine being, but _a_ divine being. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891
Like Rembrandt, his contemporaries among the Restoration portraitists favoured fanciful mythological guises.
But in the world of drama, he towers above other contemporaries.
The point is that if one wants to find what sets Gainsborough apart from his contemporaries, even the academic Reynolds, it is best to look beyond iconological content.
Like many of his contemporaries, he regarded heat as a physical substance, rather like the ancient elemental fire.
Many of his contemporaries derided him as ‘a hesitating cow’ or ‘a bull with snail's horns.’
But are we to explain this, and the absence of mention of corslets in the Odyssey (where there is little about regular fighting), on the ground that the author of _Iliad_, Book X., and all the many authors and editors of the _Odyssey_ happened to be profound archaeologists, and, unlike their contemporaries, the later poets and interpolators of the _Iliad_, had formed the theory that corslets were not known at the time of the siege of Troy and therefore must not be mentioned? Homer and His Age
Though Johnson was less of a literary antiquary than some of his contemporaries, he possessed, through his work on the Dictionary, an unsurpassed knowledge of the language of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
These are the paintings which seem to me to proclaim Rembrandt's powers of invention and execution as of a different order from contemporaries and pupils.
Hobbes and Spinoza, despite their own differences, advanced, or were read as advancing, a number of objectionable and deeply troubling theses which Leibniz (and most of his contemporaries) saw as an enormous threat: materialism, atheism, and necessitarianism. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
In the highly traditional society which existed in medieval England, a society bound by ties of blood and heredity, wealth and landholding alone were not enough to make a man noble - at least in the eyes of his contemporaries.
Metaphors of evolution were often mobilised, although the equivocal nature of the concept of evolution necessitates care in our interpretation of how contemporaries used the term.
It contains some pointed satire on the author's poetical contemporaries.
Their fans would say that they consistently outshone their indie contemporaries Blur and Oasis.
She does not make the loud public splash of so many contemporaries. Times, Sunday Times
The basic British infantryman, like his French and German contemporaries, was issued with his uniform, webbing and a rifle with bayonet.
They have also outlived many of their contemporaries. The Sun
Among her most talented contemporaries, Philpot can seem like a wolfhound among housecats: she wants lines and poems as urgent and as resistant to intellect as her favored subjects, and at her best she gets them.
Obviously, the thing that will set the R-Zero apart from its sports car contemporaries is the fact that it will be powered by an electric engine. Audi to Make Electric Sports Car | Impact Lab
They're young and poor and the patriarchal culture they inherit and the conspicuous consumption of their contemporaries sanctions their irresponsibility.
Jemini (no longer suffixed by the tag ‘The Gifted One’, although he has more claim than most of his contemporaries) lets us know the deal early on in this album.
This means that, at the rate me and my No-Kids-till-I'm -40 contemporaries are going, we'll be looking pretty rough come our half-centuries.
Although, thanks to my multifarious activities, I was never quite broke, I knew plenty of contemporaries who were.
Consistently, those elderly from the professional and managerial classes experience better health than their contemporaries from the manual occupation groups.
Russell is right, though, that 'irreligion' is a better label for Hume's position than 'atheism' it is also closer to what Hume's contemporaries meant when they called him an atheist than our own term 'atheist' is. posted by Brandon | 10:35 AM Hume and the Natural History of Religion
Sadly his fortunes sank with the Great Depression but his prospects were not bleaker than those of so many of his brave but uncelebrated contemporaries whose luck often revived.
And having read them and discovered first, that it was the custom of my contemporaries to belaud themselves in this prolegomenaical ritual The Path to Rome
he wrote pungently about his contemporaries
Like my contemporaries I first attended an elementary school, about which I remember only three things.
He sings, scats, plays guitar and serves as a de facto emissary between his father 's contemporaries such as Zoot Sims, Slam Stewart and Ray Brown and the likes of James Taylor, Rickie Lee Jones and Diana Krall with whom he' s worked as a sideman. A Marriage Made on Radio
Studies showed that non-obese, non-smoking exercisers live 8 years longer than their couch potato, smoking contemporaries.
At times this approached a rankling self-righteousness, but generally his contemporaries saw him as reserved, gentle, and charitable.
His powers of observation and description are as fresh and vivid today as they must have seemed to his contemporaries.
It is the golden era of Roman history, praised by Gibbon and admired by all historians, during which the eyes of contemporaries saw nothing but to panegyrize. Ancient States and Empires
We now wish to show that in antecedents, education, temperament, and in her writings, she represents the mass of her contemporaries – is a type of her era. The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893, With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses
But our contemporaries, facing up to our present moment of crisis, are thankfully rather more tentative. Times, Sunday Times
Critics such as La Font de Saint-Yenne and Diderot began to label the work of many of their contemporaries shallow, frivolous, and licentious.
In the eyes of his contemporaries his military greatness was not in doubt.
It is quite different from the shattered fragments found in the analytic cubism of his contemporaries Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.
Only so, furthermore, will he have the ability to compete with his contemporaries in what is a world-wide competition.
Contemporaries visiting France and Italy in the 1820s did not know which was the more shocking: the popery of the revived Roman Catholic Church or the secularism of the remnants of the revolution.
Later, the ten fast battleships were in advance of their foreign contemporaries in mounting dual-purpose secondary batteries effective against both antisurface and antiaircraft targets.
THE extraordinary bodily, as well as mental superiority which Wallace and Bruce possessed over their contemporaries, is thus recorded by Hector Boetius: – The Scottish Chiefs
Despite the broken-backed attempts by his contemporaries to reinvent his fiction in the form of parodies, continuations, burlettas, and melodramas, the novels themselves appear to have always won the day.
Consistently, those elderly from the professional and managerial classes experience better health than their contemporaries from the manual occupation groups.
While my contemporaries were boogalooing to the stuff on this list, I was in my room with my Kay acoustic and harmonica holder working through the Bob Dylan songbook.
His contemporaries have all taken on the role with a reasonable degree of success. Times, Sunday Times
The problem is to assess how much of his vision he owed to his elevation, to his position in history and to the work of his predecessors and contemporaries, and how much to the keenness of his own sight.
What was unremarkable to contemporaries, in other words, is precisely what seems most puzzling in retrospect. How Wars end
Set beside the lives of his contemporaries ensconced in the unobjectionably attractive stability of writing-program appointments, his biography has long seemed the stuff of legend.
Contemporaries were agreed that there was an awesome finality to these events.
At age four I was in grade Prep at South Caulfield Primary school differentiating between circles, triangles and rhomboids, as well as tethering the big world of toilet training (I was a year younger than most of my contemporaries).
Doubtless the heaviest burden of our contemporaries is a consciousness of a divergence between our democratic theory on the one hand, that working people have a right to the intellectual resources of society, and the actual fact on the other hand, that thousands of them are so overburdened with toil that there is no leisure nor energy left for the cultivation of the mind. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
It's an exaggeration to say that Boswell and his contemporaries would start the day with a tuppeny tart, get blotto at lunchtime and join in a riot on the way home but not much of an exaggeration.
The Viking invasions he saw - like most of his contemporaries, in England and elsewhere - as a visitation of divine vengeance on a people that had fallen into decadent ways.
As a mere beginning, he doubled the diameter of the solar system by observing the great outlying planet which we now call Uranus, but which he christened Georgium Sidus, in honor of his sovereign, and which his French contemporaries, not relishing that name, preferred to call Herschel. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences
For all its buccaneering swagger, the quality that sets the current Australian team apart from its rugby union contemporaries is its defensive intransigence.
Less greedy than the other "conquistadores" his contemporaries, he only sought for the mineral riches of the country that he might ensure the development of the prosperity of his colony, in which he had taken care first of all to encourage agriculture. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World
Although accused of pantheism by their contemporaries, their systems can be identified as panentheistic because they understood God in various ways as including the world rather than being the world and because they used a dialectical method. Panentheism
The sort of celebrity enjoyed by Parker and her contemporaries was a far cry from the often-bratty variety that emerged during the supermodel era of the 1980s and '90s, embodied by Linda ( "We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day") Evangelista and maid-assaulter Naomi Campbell. Lesley M. M. Blume: ICONS OF STYLE SERIES: Suzy Parker, The World's First Supermodel (PHOTOS)
Although Heywood was surrounded by the ‘waste’ of considerable areas of unreclaimed bogs, the design of the estate created by Trench's father was widely recognised by contemporaries as a model country-house landscape.
In many cases they engaged in open hostilities towards precursors and contemporaries alike. The Times Literary Supplement
[Page 162] away from a newspaper office, and after a long time read in the same paper: "One of our respected contemporaries is authority for the story than an unknown Indian woman dropped dead on the street about two weeks ago. Six Months in Mexico
But they were seen by disapproving contemporaries as evidence of a worrying moral decline. Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
His contemporaries put him in the same league as a virtuoso pianist, too. Times, Sunday Times
You may hear strains of '80s British bands such as Echo and the Bunnymen and the Cure, see common ground with contemporaries such as Arcade Fire and rock to the sound of what the mags call anthemic choruses. The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
Thom Donovan wrote: here is the call for a magazine I coedit, which features writings on the practice and / or poetics of one's contemporaries. one of the magazine's purposes is to create discourse, as well as to invent and extend alternative critical modalities. check it out! PoetryFoundation.org
But the bibliomaniac may in fact have supplied his contemporaries with a resource for thinking about how booksor, better still, the canon (that "imaginary totality of works" referenced by John Guillory, who cautions us against the ideological misprision involved in thinking that it might be materialized anywhere) might be more firmly attached to persons, might be rendered personal effects. "Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists
But it is perhaps truer of Spinoza than of his contemporaries that his enterprise was one of radical deduction from first principles.
It would seem that these contemporaries of the fun society paint its dark side and all its ruptures so appealingly that they talk to the metaphysically homeless from the soul.
He believed, in a way that far outstripped his contemporaries, in the comprehensibility of God's creation, because it was God's creation. Paul Wallace: Intelligent Design Is Dead: A Christian Perspective
Stuttgart Art "Kollwitz–Beckmann–Dix–Grosz: Wartime" explores 100 drawings and prints by German painter, printmaker, and sculptor Käthe Kollwitz, alongside works by her contemporaries, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz and Ludwig Meidner. What's on Around Europe
I remember that a large number of my contemporaries, including yours truly, would get blotto (you're right, it's a wonderful word Kevin) and sometimes do some truly despicable things.
A bachelor, he retired to a cottage in North Wales, but continued a close association with his older contemporaries in the West Midlands.
Many older disabled people may also perceive themselves as ageing more rapidly than their non-disabled contemporaries.
A decade younger than most of his labelmates, 23-year-old Chris Clark likely grew up with the music of those he can now consider contemporaries.
His contemporaries have all taken on the role with a reasonable degree of success. Times, Sunday Times
Although the production values of films had improved, he found that the new generation of stars lacked the sparkle of his contemporaries. Times, Sunday Times
Studies showed that non-obese, non-smoking exercisers live 8 years longer than their couch potato, smoking contemporaries.
What also especially distinguished Upham from the often over - intellectualist tone of his contemporaries was his em - phasis on emotions — here he was looking back, per - haps, to Jonathan Edwards. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Unlike his California contemporaries, Snyder primarily used balsa wood removed from scrapped Navy life rafts.
It is with contemporaries and consociates that most of my social traffic occurs.
Like their contemporaries in the press, the schoolroom, and elsewhere, literary writers helped to construct Irish-Americans as innately depraved.
Lincoln was to become a hero in the myth that grew out of the times - a most unlikely result to many of his contemporaries who could see only his ordinariness and typicality.
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of our contemporaries, the connection of events.
This outlandish-seeming conspiracy theory, Bellany argues, was plausible to many contemporaries, including the prosecutor Sir Edward Coke, because it tapped into deeply felt pre-existing fears about the likelihood of popish plots.
She defended it in terms so robust as to seem to her prudish contemporaries as boasting of promiscuity. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
A salad with a sugar-beet mousseline fades against its contemporaries, and a beautifully roasted quail is almost hijacked by too many highfalutin buddies (it's stuffed with dumplings, foie gras, and truffles).
Were they newly-discovered planets, nicknamed whilst awaiting baptism, or strange fossils, contemporaries of the Megatherium, or Magyar dissyllables from Dr Bowring's vocabulary? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
While not physically prepossessing and perhaps less obviously glamorous than her contemporaries, she is aging beautifully, and it is a pleasure to see her work.
The following portrait sketches by contemporaries are, there-fore, of special interest.
I do feel a connection with younger artists - especially with people who sample my music or the music of my contemporaries.
I believed profoundly in Zionism in the way that my contemporaries believed profoundly in Maoism or Castroism or whatever. Fresh Air Remembers Historian Tony Judt
Other parts of my argument derive from Malinowski, Mauss and Levi-Strauss, as well as from various of my younger contemporaries.
The Daily Mail, a revolutionary departure from the leaden format of its contemporaries, sold a record breaking 300,000 copies of its first issue.
This cavalry was quickly dispersed at the Battle of Sedgemoor, contemporaries claimed on account of Grey's own cowardice and ineptitude.
It is not a representation of the past but presents the understanding and meaning that the biblical authors' contemporaries attributed to the past.
Eighteenth and nineteenth-century feminists are ‘our sisters, our contemporaries’.
Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779 – 1848) was one of Humphry Davy's contemporaries and rivals. Berzelius, Jöns Jakob
And that's probably just as well, since he's still strong enough to take on most of his contemporaries in a simul!
He stood head and shoulders above all his contemporaries inside and outside the University.
What Jackson does not mention is that many of Bonnet's contemporaries, French and Soviet, considered him to be a yellow, treasonous, double-talking four-flusher.
Enthusiasm was a term of derogation among her contemporaries.
Some contemporaries would have seen the confrontation of the two cultures as an out and out battle, in the case of the improvers a struggle between the forces of civilization and enlightenment, and those of barbarity and heathenism.
Wine, in particular, would recall the blood shed by Christ whom some contemporaries greeted as the Lamb of God.
Few contemporaries had bargained for the uniform, national framework that was imposed upon them after 1790.
If its range staggered his contemporaries, now it seems inconceivable that any one scholar could aspire to encompass it. The Times Literary Supplement
The mammoth and the sabre-toothed tiger may have long since passed into the palaeontology history books but one of their contemporaries, a diminutive snail, is clinging to existence in Yorkshire.
Pride drove on my contemporaries and myself to succeed those names and we knew it would involve the hard yards. Times, Sunday Times
He earned the general respect and honour of his contemporaries.
Though it was found recherché by his contemporaries, its expressive power came to be acknowledged, and its lyrical melody and richly varied textures to be given their due.
Consistently, those elderly from the professional and managerial classes experience better health than their contemporaries from the manual occupation groups.
This mighty monarch had a son yclept Sharrkan,143 who was likest of all men to his father and who proved himself one of the prodigies of his time for subduing the brave and bringing his contemporaries to bane and ban. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
What is it like to have outlived so many of one's contemporaries? The Times Literary Supplement
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Both are utterly professional and are regarded with something approaching awe by their contemporaries.
He earned the general respect and honour of his contemporaries.
War has had a searchlight effect on historians as well as contemporaries, rendering the area outside the beam yet more obscure.
Its flame-like colour puts to shame the polite tonalities of many of his contemporaries. The Times Literary Supplement
However, contemporaries now subscribe to the notion that the term brioche is a derivative of the Norman word for pound, broyer.
Their concert, entitled Per Cantare e Sonare, consisted of pieces by Monteverdi and his lesser-known contemporaries, the cornetto often standing in for a second voice.
But unlike his contemporaries, who headed straight into an art course or an apprenticeship with the older guys in the industry, Steranko went off and learned stage magic, fire eating, the jazzmaster guitar, escapology. Jonathan Ross meets Jim Steranko, his comic-book hero
That many in the eighteenth century actively resisted what seemed to them classical cultural imperialism, something supported by contemporaries they considered spineless adulators and imitators, may be less widely understood.
One of the most interesting questions in economics is why we are so wealthy today compared to our ancestors of 200 years ago and our contemporaries in underdeveloped countries. On heterodox Economics and Innovation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
He was a renowned dancer and his friends and contemporaries say his skill at Jiving was without equal.
But that's what Simmons and her contemporaries did, scumming away to ensure clean sugar even when the cone it came from was made from the dregs of a hogshead. Andrew Beahrs: Birth of an American Cookie
It is known of course to all divines, but not necessarily, perhaps, to every other person, that this turbulent and ambitious patriarch, during what he calls his embassy to Syria, occupied himself in taking down notes of the contents of theological treatises by his predecessors and contemporaries, with his judgments on their merits. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
Thoreau's ideal of this place, its purity and changelessness, contrasted with and to some extent contested his contemporaries' exploitation of the pond and woods as natural resources.
Another couple of years of his acting the galoot might be too much but, unlike most of his contemporaries, you get the feeling that if it all stopped in the morning he'd quite happily do something else.
They're young and poor and the patriarchal culture they inherit and the conspicuous consumption of their contemporaries sanctions their irresponsibility.
My contemporaries were climbing the job ladder and buying houses. Times, Sunday Times
Was this the man whose escapades as a young tea planter had once been the subject of discussion among his contemporaries who would look upon him with admiration not unmixed with a tinge of envy?
Some of his contemporaries - Weelkes in particular - quickly fell under the spell of these new-fashioned pieces, and imitated them.
However, the very preoccupation with identifying causal influences begs more fundamental questions about whether contemporaries shared intellectual assumptions.
We do know that history plays were often regarded by contemporaries as capable of inspiring playgoers to imitate the momentous action taking place on stage.
In honor of the birthday of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, the institution's beloved patron of music, members of the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra performed music of Bach and his lesser-known contemporaries Dietrich Buxtehude, Franz Tunder and Andreas Kirchoff. Review: Helsinki Baroque Orchestra at Library of Congress
During the last four years, while most of her contemporaries from the first part of her career have dropped off the radar or retired from the sport, Reed has been chugging along, picking up World Cup and Pan-Am Games medals and multiple national championships along the way. Reed wins world title, USA TODAY weekly honor
They have also outlived many of their contemporaries. The Sun
But our contemporaries, facing up to our present moment of crisis, are thankfully rather more tentative. Times, Sunday Times
Paganini had drawn criticism from his contemporaries, who cited his works as a musical diablerie due to their complexity and fury.
Those who recall Mercouri only as a mid-century sex symbol outshone by her more celebrated contemporaries Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot might be bemused by the exalted place she now occupies in the modern Greek pantheon, rather as if Angie Dickinson had become head of the National Endowment for the Arts. But more than anyone else, Mercouri vivified the continuing campaign to bring Greece's long-lost archaeological treasures back to their homeland. Grading the New Acropolis
In his time he was considered eccentric for conserving wildlife while most of his contemporaries were shooting it.
Contemporaries_: "Hunt has behaved like a hyena to Byron, whom he has dug up to girn and howl over him in the same breath. Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature
Alkan rarely compromises the logic of his counterpoint, and a similar inflexibility was noted in his playing, which avoided the indulgent rubato of many of his contemporaries.
The way Alex Rodriguez dominated AL third basemen this season, Martin overshadowed the rest of his contemporaries at catcher. Fantasy all-star teams of 2007
Few, if any, of his contemporaries achieved such a spectacular rise as well as the dramatic reversals of fortune that he did.
She does not make the loud public splash of so many contemporaries. Times, Sunday Times
A pair of small, crowded biblical scenes, by ter Brugghen's Utrecht Mannerist contemporaries, Roland Savery and Joachim Antonisz. An Artist of Dual Allegiances
You may well be a sound sleeper but many of your male contemporaries will complain that their partners click, snore and have more limbs that an octopus. Times, Sunday Times
Back home, Cadell, alongside his Scottish colourist contemporaries, no doubt struggled to translate pictorial techniques bred there to fit the murk of downtown Edinburgh. This week's new exhibitions
Sometimes they were erroneously styled "Waldenses" by their contemporaries. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
They startled contemporaries by their radicalism, and their conduct gives the lie to our preconceived idea that a townsman is a man of peace. Medieval Europe
The two men were exact contemporaries at university.
What distinguishes Harcourt from his contemporaries is the way he laces his stories with wistful charm and surreal humour.
In this statement Critias appears to be in agreement with Protagoras and many other of his contemporaries in the sophistic idea that excellence is teachable.
There are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires which special science calls moutardes. 59 The pick advances laboriously through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Les Miserables
More often, contemporaries described such youths by their street occupation or activity: newsboys, copper pickers, wood-stealers, ragpickers, swill-gatherers, bootblacks.
It implies that during the summer holidays, while your contemporaries got drunk on cider and obsessed about Big Brother, you experienced a profound political and sexual awakening.
You may well be a sound sleeper but many of your male contemporaries will complain that their partners click, snore and have more limbs that an octopus. Times, Sunday Times
The unanimous evidence of his contemporaries is confirmed by the public and private declarations of the emperor himself; and his various writings express the uniform tenor of his religious sentiments, which policy would have prompted him to dissemble rather than to affect. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
This, for those who have embraced his philosophy, and that is most of our contemporaries, makes the world and human life meaningless and purposeless.
The figures which flitted near, pausing, occasionally, to inspect my work, habited, as they were, in the long cloak and _capuchon_ of the country, might well have passed for contemporaries of the superstitious fear which excluded the unfortunate victims of disease from an equality of rights with their fellow-men; but the cagot himself is no longer visible. Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
His love poetry takes a different line from that of his contemporaries.
Hindemith, the antidisestablishmentarian, held that mere custom could not account for the vast riches of tonality; unlike his contemporaries, he believed that its possibilities had not been exhausted.
Unlike other near contemporaries such as Thomas Dekker, Whetstone's anatomization of urban failings does not slip into cynicism, nor does he take a vicarious enjoyment in the vices he describes.
Our own churchly figurehead stands head and shoulders above most of his ecclesiastical contemporaries and many senior politicians.
Christopher's ballets demonstrate a strong musicality and romanticism, which the choreographer says sets him apart from his more avant-garde contemporaries.
These women rejected their contemporaries' scientific rationalism and positivism in favour of a profound respect for local knowledges.
Like their contemporaries, the Prazak, they have a marvellous richness of response that adds drama to the long, unbroken lines - in 1918, the composer was under the influence of Brahms - and caressing half-tones to softer sections.
He explored the realities of urban life with a critical intelligence and a Faulknerian restlessness unmatched by any of his contemporaries.
Pearl Jam went on to surpass its 1990s contemporaries like Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Nirvana, even as it transcended the label grunge. NYT > Home Page
The visibility of such people in London railway termini or at suburban stations made them very noticeable to contemporaries.

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