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Contemporary in sentence

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They did ballet, they did tap, jazz; they did modern; they did contemporary.
I want to share with you the selection of work by contemporary artists from Africa and its diaspora.
Seeing diversity in race and ethnicity in contemporary art is the only way that we'll see changes in the art industry, but also for the relations between Africa and the Western canon.
Now, I want to tell a story, which is a very famous story in the Indian and Buddhist tradition, of the great Saint Asanga who was a contemporary of Augustine in the West and was sort of like the Buddhist Augustine.
Over a lifetime, through everything, through the Cultural Revolution and everything afterward, he's kept collecting, so that he now has over eight million pieces in his museums documenting contemporary Chinese history.
I'm interpreting it in a more contemporary manner.
Contemporary artists in India are having a conversation with the world like never before.
He's putting a contemporary spin on the miniature tradition.
This next artist is probably the alpha male of contemporary Indian art, Subodh Gupta.
You know for me, the interest in contemporary forms of slavery started with a leaflet that I picked up in London.
It looked at the intersection of race and gender in contemporary American art.
I saw that the front lines of contemporary wars are not on isolated battlefields, but right where people live.
They could be creative in terms of education, they may be creative in terms of culture, they may be creative in terms of institutions; but a lot of our work is in the field of technological creativity, the innovations, either in terms of contemporary innovations, or in terms of traditional knowledge.
He swore off creating contemporary drama, shows set in the present day, because he saw that when people fill their mind with four hours a day of, for example, "Two and a Half Men," no disrespect, it shapes the neural pathways, he said, in such a way that they expect simple problems.
Let's take a contemporary example of the dispute about justice.
Let's take a final example that's prominent in contemporary political debate: same-sex marriage.
The contemporary world was literally built by men who have rarely taken the time to understand how people unlike them experience their designs.
Based on Clare Booth Luce's shrewdly observant 1936 play on the relationships that evolve among a strictly female group of pampered Manhattan socialites, the story would seem ripe for a contemporary remake.
This tale of the upper-classes getting their come-uppance and wallowing in their high-class misery is like a contemporary Mid-Sommerish version of an old Joan Crawford movie in which she suffered in mink.
There's extremely little about how Bruce Haack produced his music and virtually no examples of direct connection to later and contemporary electronic music.
These days, Asian horror films are among the best in the world, noted for their atmosphere and reflection of contemporary society.
This is a classic example of all that is wrong with contemporary English theater & film.
It is very far from a Shakespeare film, but it is interesting to see how the director understood the story and where he places it in contemporary life.
It is too obviously intended to inject contemporary values -- a respect for the role of women, blacks, native Americans, and single parents; a disrespect for violence and drinking; the wholesomeness that comes with marriage, including interracial marriage, and small adorable children -- into a century in which those values weren't necessarily accepted, at least in these ways.
I happened upon a rare copy of this early Almodovar film with high expectations - Almodovar is a prolific contemporary director, I enjoyed his 1988 film "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown", and I had read one or two very positive reviews of the film.
Director Geoffrey Wright (Romper Stomper) tries his hand at updating Macbeth by setting it in the contemporary Melbourne underworld.
The only redeeming features are some moderately good acting, (although that said, Vanessa Redgrave seems to permanently render much the same performance whatever character she plays), and some good cinematography in places, but otherwise it is a bitter, bitter disappointment, and it could, and indeed should, have been a contemporary masterpiece.
Geoffrey Wright, the director of "Romper Stomper", transplants Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in the contemporary, criminal underworld of Melbourne, Australia.
If you are a long-time Rush fan you know what this video contains: loathsome songs from the past, the "BIG 3" hits from the 80's and their "last-ditch" efforts to remain contemporary.
The idea of bringing Dracula to contemporary times isn't bad--after all, it might revive the series a bit by injecting a new story element into a series that Hammer has all but exhausted in a long series of generally excellent movies.
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