Sentence examples for a contemporary touch from inspiring English sources

The eyeglasses were meant as a contemporary touch, but the look still struck her as too period and too formal.

Like the interior decoration, natural ingredients define the restaurant's cuisine, which offers Italian favorites with a contemporary touch.

Mr. Longmire gives the church, now a local landmark, full frontal attention and captured a contemporary touch: a man on a cellphone on its steps.

Directed by David McVicar, this production takes a traditional approach, but with some vivid colors and stark imagery to lend a contemporary touch to the period sets and costumes by John Macfarlane.

The tiki-style bungalows of another resort, Fridays, were recently one-upped by Discovery Shores, whose "beach butlers," down pillows and sunken pool bar have added a contemporary touch to Boracay.

He talks about issues young people care about, and while rarely patronizing, uses both classic speaking gifts and a contemporary touch for the pop culture vernacular that resonates to hit the sweet spot with a very tough demographic.

The last house facing Ocean Park, at Sea View Avenue, has a truly contemporary touch.

The son integrates traditional local products into his cooking with a gently contemporary touch.

The chancellor also showed a more contemporary touch when he turned to the Danny Boyle film Trainspotting film as he spoke of the choice facing voters at the next election between a Labour past and a Tory future.

For a more contemporary touch, Jason Marquis of the Tottenville High School dynasty down at the Island's South Shore happened to be in town, beating the Mets at that ballpark with a view of the parking lot.

In one recent scene, Ben, distressed at a conversation about his son's relationship with his ex-wife's new boyfriend (a neat contemporary touch), pours about 10 spoons of sugar into his coffee then drinks it.