Sentence examples for contemporary background from inspiring English sources

Take this matter of mourning, and take it against a contemporary background.

The production features two other Royal Ballet company members as well as four dancers from a contemporary background.

"Certainly the mission will not change," Ms. Gould said of her plans, "but I do come from a contemporary background, and even the historical shows or exhibitions of Judaica" may reflect that.

In other words, this is a love story with a classic love-story arc two people meet, part, and meet again set against a contemporary background of roiling media unease.

How, against a contemporary background, do you mourn an octogenarian father, nearly blind, his heart enlarged, his lungs filling with fluid, who creeps, stumbles, gives off the odors, the moldiness or gassiness of old men.

The film's contemporary background, however, is what was then called the "oil problem," which reached its peak of tension during the mid-1920s, we learn from Stanley Ross (506 528).

There are women, and several people share Mr. Lemon's contemporary dance background.

We propose that trigger(s) for peatland site construction in Ireland must instead also be sought within the wider, contemporary social background.

Ovid's next work, the Metamorphoses, must also be interpreted against its contemporary literary background, particularly in regard to Virgil's Aeneid.

This review concentrates primarily on the antimicrobial potential of ionic liquids and aims to consolidate contemporary microbiological background information, assessment protocols and future considerations necessary to advance the field in light of the urgent need for antimicrobial innovation.

Not only is he campaigning to restore the school, he has also formed a new dance company – Acosta Danza – recruiting 25 dancers, half of whom are classically trained and half of whom have a contemporary dance background.