Sentence examples for contemporary episode from inspiring English sources

A too-quick contemporary episode introduces a young woman, Elizabeth, gripped by a strange malady called "historialysis" - she is framed as the Irish every-person who has not faced the violent history of the country's birth.

The poem, which is written in heroic couplets, is about the Exclusion crisis, a contemporary episode in which anti-Catholics, notably the earl of Shaftesbury, sought to bar James, duke of York, a Roman Catholic convert and brother to King Charles II, from the line of succession in favour of the king's illegitimate (but Protestant) son, the duke of Monmouth.

The autobiography includes some passing references to slavery and a revealing contemporary episode: Twain goes to a lecture supporting Booker T Washington's Tuskegee Institute and comments the next morning that although he'd met Washington many times before, he'd never realised that he was mixed race and had blue eyes: "How unobservant a dull person can be.

This history remains relevant, considering a more contemporary episode of sterilization abuse, again in California's public institutions.

He is introduced wearing a greatcoat in World War II-set episodes, but changes to modern day jeans in contemporary episode "Boom Town" and black leather in futuristic episodes.

Sean Gandert of Paste wrote: "I'd like to see them lay off the contemporary commentary episodes for a bit, but other than that it was exactly what any fan of the show would hope for".

In the episode, contemporary Earth and twenty-six other planets are stolen by the Daleks, aided by their megalomaniacal creator Davros and a shattered but precognitive Dalek Caan.

"I do hope that visitors to these exhibitions would reflect not only on the common denominators of both historical episodes — contemporary refugee waves from Africa and the immigration to the young state of Israel from Arab countries half a century ago — but even more on the meaning of socially engaged photography".

The "contemporary hook" that each episode needs will be provided this time by the All-Star Game, which will have been played the week before (that is, this Tuesday) in Phoenix.

The Zimbabwean episode, for contemporary times, belonged squarely in the theatre of Ultimate Cynism and the Grossness of Greed - the theatre of an Alfred Jarry, creator of Ubu Roi, the brutal 19th-century satire of the French bourgeoisie.

The episode features contemporary artist Jasper Johns as himself, and also features Italian actress Isabella Rossellini as Astrid Weller.