Sentence examples for contemporary impulse from inspiring English sources

As Hyde sets out to show, the contemporary impulse to think of culture as "intellectual property" contains far more of "property" than the founders intended.

In fact, the Hermitage project was inspired by his contempt for the clichés of current architecture — in part, as he had explained, "the nauseating contemporary impulse to impose spectacular glass additions on spaces that already have their own aura".

After first defining the quantity of matter and the quantity of motion (or, in contemporary terms, impulse, i=mv), Kant asserts that the quantity of matter, in comparison with every other matter, can be estimated only by the quantity of motion at a given speed (4:537).

The group — Mr. Coin, the violinists Erich Höbarth and Andrea Bischof, and the violist Anita Mitterer — has ranked among the world's foremost string quartets since shortly after its founding in 1985, balancing period instruments and historically informed performance practice with contemporary interpretive impulses like no other.

Since establishing their business in 1997, furniture designers and vintage retailers Grant Fenning and Glenn Lawson have successfully rounded out their retro-inspired sensibility with contemporary aesthetic impulses.

By nature or nurture, it is one contemporary reader's impulse to wonder what the memoirist was really like, what this distinguished intellectual really thought in the privacy of his dreams.

Other works exemplify a strong graphic impulse in contemporary art.

The final essay addresses the utopian impulse in contemporary global pop.

Paradoxically this insistence on authenticity is also the impulse driving contemporary conservation.

* "BLACK ROMANTIC: THE FIGURATIVE IMPULSE IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART," Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street, (212) 864-4500 (through June 23).

Manhattan Through next Friday Maybe there is an important exhibition to be done about the classical impulse in contemporary art.