Sentence examples for contemporary like from inspiring English sources

It was all very classy and contemporary, like a modern-art survey course at NYU.

It was, said one contemporary, like watching "a magician, performing his incantations in public".

He can sound deeply old-fashioned and utterly contemporary, like Elton John one minute and James Blake the next.

Many entries quote other writers, both historical, like Vincent La Chapelle in the 18th century, and contemporary, like Harold McGee and John Mariani.

For one thing, Mr. Brustein and the directors he hired usually preferred to work with a text, whether by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Pirandello or a contemporary like Larry Gelbart.

Today, West, who was born in South London in 1892 and died in 1983, is a relative unknown, especially compared to a contemporary like Virginia Woolf.

There are no errant words in his sentences, no gauche contemporary "likes" or "y'knows".

And yet, contemporary Britain likes Tatler.

For instance, the contemporary essay likes to display its postmodernity by showing us its workings.

Contemporaries like J. M. W. Turner easily matched his scale.

The show takes in contemporaries or near-contemporaries like Eva Hesse, Basquiat and Matthew Ritchie.