Synonym: coeval, contemporaneous, modern-day, present-day. Similar words: contemplate, on the contrary, to the contrary, contretemps, context, contest, contend, a bone of contention. Meaning: [kən'tempərərɪ] n. a person of nearly the same age as another. adj. 1. characteristic of the present 2. belonging to the present time 3. occurring in the same period of time.
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31. Contemporary Hollywood movies often make subtle genuflections to the great film-makers of the past.
32. His prices rank high among those of other contemporary photographers.
33. He is probably the most reviled man in contemporary theatre.
34. Contemporary photographs are juxtaposed with a sixteenth century, copper Portuguese mirror.
35. One contemporary manuscript shows Henry II crowned by the hand of Christ.
36. Contemporary art has taken a huge leap forward in the last five or six years.
37. The aim of the course is to help students to comprehend the structure of contemporary political and social systems.
38. He was a contemporary of Freud and may have known him.
39. A significant exhibition of contemporary sculpture will be on view at the Portland Gallery.
40. Until a few months ago few people outside the arcane world of contemporary music had heard of Gorecki.
41. Consumption rather than saving has become the central feature of contemporary societies.
42. She is widely regarded as the high priestess of contemporary dance.
43. She gave a series of lectures at Warwick University last year on contemporary British writers.
44. The contemporary dialogue for me struck a slightly discordant note.
45. Set in contemporary Dublin, this pacy thriller features kidnapping, mayhem and murder.
46. Audiences were going to be polled on which of three pieces of contemporary music they liked best.
47. These are radical changes which will alter the complexion of the British contemporary dance scene.
48. She illustrates her point with examples drawn from contemporary newspaper accounts.
49. His writings range from ancient to contemporary art, and include a study of Giorgione's paintings.
50. Local historians have reconstructed from contemporary descriptions how the hall may have looked in 1300.
51. The oldest tradition goes back to the contemporary historian John Foxe.
52. Only the names are ancient; the characters are modern and contemporary.
53. Contemporary African cinema has much to offer in its vitality and freshness.
53. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
54. Williams's play is a tense contemporary three-hander about two murderers and a bank-robber.
55. I had mentioned that I didn't really like contemporary music.
56. Contemporary dance is coming onto the arts scene again after a long fallow period.
57. Beneath/Below/Under the surface of contemporary West Indian life lurk memories of slavery.
58. The gallery has built up a fine collection of contemporary art.
59. The movie is a biting commentary on contemporary life in a big city.
60. It is a tenet of contemporary psychology that an individual's mental health is supported by having good social networks.
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