Sentence examples for an example of contemporary from inspiring English sources

Oscar Niemeyer, the Brazilian architect who designed Brasilia and worked with Le Corbusier on the United Nations Building in New York, said the headquarters he designed for the Communist Party in Paris was "a piece of work which will constitute in this city, I am sure, an example of contemporary architecture, and even, permit me to say, a tourist attraction".

Modern scholars have attended to the pamphlet as an example of contemporary attitudes toward homophobia, effeminacy, prostitution, and even international relations.

"By representing that which cannot otherwise be seen," they say, "ATMOStag is an act of public design, a gesture of urban communication, an example of contemporary generative practices and a singular expression of the convergence of art, science and technology".

Into this headwind, Kavanagh et al. [ 4] have provided an example of contemporary divergence in a suite of traits that have responded to contrasting thermal environments.

This habitat-related selection in Cepaea is often quoted as an example of contemporary, though relatively slow (requiring at least 100 generations; Cook, 1998) evolution.

This is an example of contemporary evolution affecting ecology, a pattern that has led to a recent reevaluation of the role of evolution in ecology (Hairston et al. 2005; Schoener 2011).

Commissioner Selig has cited Braun's name publicly as an example of the contemporary stars baseball now has to offer its cynical fans, people who have been tested consistently from their minor league years on up.

Headland will be the first to tell you it's a sort of antidote to "Fifty Shades of Grey," which she says, along with "Gone Girl," is an example of the contemporary evolution of Austenian social satire.

Brunel University lecturer Geoff King viewed the male lead's efforts to escape from an "imprisoning" wife to be a recurring theme in silent comedy, and film reviewer Peter Nash found the "fastidious and effeminate" Freddie an example of a contemporary gay stock character.

Look at an example of a contemporary poem.

Its beauty belies the dark origins of Seafield House, an austere example of contemporary architecture just a short jog from the Finchley Golf Club in the North London borough of Barnet.