Sentence examples for coevals from inspiring English sources

With their towers and battlements, these domestic fortresses of Christendom, built as much to intimidate as to inspire, were close cousins and coevals of the Crusader castles in Turkey and the Middle East, like Birecik, Markab, and Crac des Chevaliers, whose lordly ruins I later saw, always from a distance and always with an unwelcome pang of déjà vu.

The new novel has less sex in it than Houellebecq's previous works — which is probably one reason that it was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 2010, the relieved judges eager to encourage the author's newfound "respectability" — but even Jed Martin, whose libido certainly has a lower pilot light than his fictional coevals, uses prostitutes.

You may well react to Stillman's gang of floral belles as they respond to their coevals, yet "Damsels in Distress" casts an unaccountable spell — a cool, thin-blooded charm.

Pointing out Kate Hudson and her coevals, Martin said how refreshing it was to see so many young stars in attendance, adding, "It reminds me of my own death".

Now and then it comes to me that I appear to have more energy and hope than some of my coevals, but I take no credit for this.

Denis Matsuev, however, has a level of musical insight that rises above that of most of his coevals; he is the main attraction in a performance conducted by Mark Gorenstein that features works by Tchaikovsky, Bartók, and Rachmaninoff (the Piano Concerto No. 3).

Bruce Springsteen is only a year older, and the two near-coevals are the rare figures who have successfully maintained an entire professional life span in rock and roll, the music of youth.

Reich is clearly trying to forge a legacy here, one that stretches from him and his near-coevals down to the middle-aged generation of the Bang on a Can composers Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, and David Lang and even further, to the comparative youngsters Nico Muhly and Bryce Dessner.

In only one respect has the uncompromising monotheism of Islam shown itself to be vulnerable i.e., in the doctrine of the Qurʾān as uncreated and coeval with Allah himself.

A fair-skinned woman who habitually sunbathes, for example, may have a senile skin at age 40, whereas her coeval who spends most of her time indoors may not.

The great Peruvian ruins around Chavín de Huántar have given the name Chavín to one of the most remarkable civilizations in South America and one of the earliest, though it was apparently not coeval with the Valdivia of Ecuador (c. 3200 bc).