Sentence examples for a topicality from inspiring English sources
There's a topicality to the jokes that is refreshing.
I didn't see "Larry Sanders" during its original run, and I wondered if a talk-show satire would have a topicality whose effectiveness had expired.
Some of the drawings are timeless; others — like a February, 1963, cartoon by Alan Dunn, imagining the equestrian element in Jacqueline Kennedy's detail — have a topicality that can, in retrospect, be poignant.
The culture clash at work here — Google aces wielding the full, computer-assisted strength of their collective brainpower, one scholar fiddling with a quaint astrolabe — has a topicality that works to this novel's advantage.
There's a topicality, too, about Steven Spielberg's historical drama Lincoln (2012, Fox, 15), although neither the 16th president nor the abolition of slavery is the real heart of the drama.
But in its broader themes – refugees and orphans of war, the morality and consequences of western intervention – the show has acquired a topicality that has nothing to do with Vietnam.
It was hardly a barn burner, but with a catchy piano hook and a certain topicality about racism -- this was not long before Tawana Brawley -- "The Way It Is" gained significant air play and even made it to No. 1 on Billboard's Top 40.
Though Gilmour's biography is less concerned with tackling the knottier cost-benefit problems of making and keeping empires, lest such problems get in the way of a fast-moving, entertaining, and finely written story, moments along the route of an eventful life have a gripping topicality.
There are ingeniously staged killings, terrific chases, a visit to the Rijksmuseum where the heroine works, and a sharp green socio-political message given a new topicality by the current Trafigura affair.
It is easy to point to lines that have a fortuitous topicality: knowing chuckles now greet George's admission that "There's a sense in which I even quite like a war", and later suggestion that, if Labour can't beat the Tories, the best solution is to join them.
At two key moments, the movie has a forceful topicality.
