The novel is supposedly set in the present day, yet it's a present day where everyone is keeping secret journals – page after page of descriptive prose – and writing letters, and no one is social networking or sending emails or recording their life in a non-anachronistic way.
But that's a present day problem.
The hymns of the week repeatedly use the present tense and the word "today" because Christ's saving Passion and life-giving Resurrection are a present day reality and hope -- not some far away historical.
So researchers say there must be a present-day source of methane on Mars.
She might equally be a present-day writer or, most likely, a fantasy made real by the workings of the male protagonist's troubled psyche.
The first is set in a university creative writing class around the mid-1980s, though it could easily be a present-day setting.
Contact with contaminated material occurred historically and continues to be a present-day concern with the abundance of exposed waste in residential areas.
I saw "Gun Hill Road," which turns out to be a present-day take on the New York tenement experience, a heartbreaking film about family misunderstandings and crimes and punishment.
Suddenly, I was a present-day cowgirl in Texas.
George Lois, the pioneering magazine and ad designer, and his wife, Rosemary, say that, as a hostess and a matchmaker, Hastreiter is a present-day Gertrude Stein.
Paul Brown designed not only the set but also the modern costumes, formal or garish, which suggested that the unseen, ill-fated sea vessel was a present-day cruise ship.
