The phrase "a contemporary mind" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who thinks in a modern or current way, often reflecting contemporary ideas or values.
Example: "Her approach to problem-solving is truly innovative; she has a contemporary mind that embraces new technologies and ideas."
Alternatives: "a modern mindset" or "a current perspective".
Sculptor Charles Orme, a member of the group of artists and metal workers who assemble the installations with the artist, told us that Paine, who is hands-on at every point in the process is, "Intensely formal, and artist's artist in that respect, with a contemporary mind, and technically savvy.
Mr. Fain and his lyrical accompanist, Richard Bishop, offered six pieces, in pairs: by Mendelssohn and Mozart (establishing lyricism); two living Americans, Kevin Puts and Randy Woolf (establishing versatility and a contemporary mind-set); and Chausson and Saint-Saëns (establishing virtuosity).
The company's brand book is also a study on communicating with an intelligent, contemporary mind.
But the "grandeur that was, the rhetorical once," can operate with unpredictable force on the contemporary mind: As a wave is a force and not the water of which it is composed, which is never the same, so nobility is a force and not the manifestations of which it is composed, which are never the same.
He can be retrieved only by extracting from the Gospels and other, nonbiblical texts the bits and pieces deemed reliable and then reassembling them in a pattern recognizable to the contemporary mind, like revolutionary or faith healer.
Taken together, all these factors help create an atmosphere of dread in the contemporary mind, one that does not stand the test of reality.
Sanctified and absolving, shorn of darkness, Anne Frank remains in all countries a revered and comforting figure in the contemporary mind.
In the contemporary mind, profit is the support a company needs to achieve something bigger.
Modern readers find collective first-person narrators unsettling; the contemporary mind keeps searching for the familiarity of an individual point of view, since it seems impossible that a group could think and feel, let alone act, as one.
Isaac Newton's alchemical interests ("Moonlighting as a Conjurer of Chemicals," Oct. 12) are not the only surprise to the contemporary mind.
