Sentence examples for contemporary first from inspiring English sources

Contemporary first novels are tougher calls.

The contemporary First Ladies who adopt a more demure profile have drawn less criticism, but all of them have taken up various causes; some, like Jackie Kennedy, are now seen as having been canny backstage operators.For the Obamas, the scrutiny has been especially intense.

Whether from scholars or investors, interest in ancient books and manuscripts was balanced by an increasing demand for contemporary first editions (by authors such as Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, and William Makepeace Thackeray) and for the products of the new private presses, such as Kelmscott.

"I'd written three novels without laying a hand on the subject," he writes: "historical and contemporary, first-person and third-, difictionalictional stories chiseled from the same real story".

Exciting, intense and engrossing, Black Ops has immediately become the definitive contemporary first-person shooter (although if you want to shoot aliens rather than Russians, Halo: Reach is your game).

But the overnight lodgings typically "don't offer all the facilities and amenities that contemporary first-class hotels do," said John W. O'Neill, director of the School of Hospitality Management at Pennsylvania State University.

The experience of growing up under nearly continuous adult supervision — the circumstances that made writing about autonomous contemporary sixth-graders so difficult for Rebecca Stead — has tinged these novels as well.

The method used is based on a critical examination of the barriers for lower temperature levels and the origins of high return temperatures in contemporary third generation systems.

Democracy has historically taken on various forms in Athens, degenerating from an aboriginal democracy of non-meddling farmers (VI.4), through various intermediate forms to a democracy (seemingly that of contemporary fourth-century Athens) in which men rule, not laws.

His own writings might be thought of as a sustained public relations campaign intended to display and advertise the value of Greek thought for a contemporary ninth century Muslim audience.

They identified contemporary first-person shooters as restricted to "a single plane of movement", the cardinal directions and hiding in place, and considered new features to increase mobility, such as a three-story-high jump.