Sentence examples for an almost contemporary from inspiring English sources

His rapid editing and framing gives the film an almost contemporary feel.

In this context of ignorance it seems worthwhile to look into the case of Ben Jonson's "studying chair", a piece of early literary furniture of which there is a brief and almost contemporary description.

Evidence of genetic stratification ascribable to the Sumerian development was provided by the Y-chromosome data where the J1-Page08 brevealsevealocallocal expansion, almost contemporary with the Sumerian City State period that characterized Southern Mesopotamia.

Rosenberg's strength is his ability to convey both the high dramatic force of the piece and the uncanny defamiliarizing of the biblical text on which it is based, while at the same time retaining an earthy humor that is almost contemporary.

Bostridge's expressionist interpretations were a reminder that these songs are almost contemporary with Munch's The Scream.

I was reminded, as one cannot help but be on Bastille Day, that these two nations, born of almost contemporary revolutions, have a history of sibling rivalry -- and as often as not they quarrel about food.

He was an almost exact contemporary of the pre-Raphaelites.

He was an almost exact contemporary of Williams, and though they weren't friends, their worlds in New York often overlapped.

Born in Waterford, in the south-east of Ireland, Manahan was an almost exact contemporary of Siobhán McKenna, but adroitly avoided comparison with her more celebrated compatriot.

He admits, however, that his own fascination with The Dwarfs stems partly from the fact that he is an almost exact contemporary of Pinter.

"A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen" (Yale University Press) narrates the life and amplifies the historical context of the writer Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847 85), who was an almost exact contemporary of Chekhov's and who, alas, died of the same ailment, tuberculosis.