Sentence examples for contemporary fascination from inspiring English sources
This is odd, given the extent to which Young is otherwise a figure of contemporary fascination.
I asked Holbrook how he explained London's contemporary fascination with its fatbergs.
"Are you related to Ignatius L Donnelly," I ask, "whose pseudo-scientific 1882 book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World underpins our contemporary fascination with Atlantis?" "No," he replies.
It also inspired the Francis Ford Coppola 1979 film Apocalypse Now, a work of homage that continues to renew the contemporary fascination with the text.
The food here draws on a nerdy and very contemporary fascination with curing, fermenting, butchery and charcuterie; where ideas are in the service of great ingredients rather than the other way round.
The contemporary fascination with food, with chefs, celebrity chefs, TV chefs, with every aspect of everything to do with ingredients and cooking and eating and what we feed ourselves and our children and where we eat out and how we define ourselves through food — all of these things had barely begun.
AT a time when "based on real-life events!" and "a true story!" are the most popular come-ons for everything from memoirs to movies, an entertaining show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art investigates contemporary artists' fascination with the opposite tactics of fakery, disguise and deceit.
Perhaps unwittingly, Ollie is becoming representative of contemporary social fascination with the nature of asexuality, and ideas of gender-neutrality.
Among contemporary artists such fascination with Ensor is hardly rare.
Though both novels are set in contemporary England, their fascination with obsession and ruin was a harbinger of Mr. Unsworth's later work.
Sometimes comical and tedious, but often abstractly beautiful and somehow irresistibly absorbing, the videos implicitly satirize contemporary society's fascination with youth and subrational states of consciousness.
