"contemporary man" is a valid and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a man who belongs to the current time period or era. Example: "The role of contemporary man in modern society is constantly evolving, blurring traditional gender roles and expectations." In this example, "contemporary man" refers to men living in the present day and how their roles and responsibilities are changing in society.
Contemporary man only builds the bridge; another, unknown man of the future will walk across it.
Bellow talked about Mozart's transcendence, something with which contemporary man is uncomfortable.
Platonov continued, "We live on the eve of a substantive conquest of the world," adding that "contemporary man, even his very best representatives, is inadequate".
It was "a shame," Mr. Putin said, that the crisis had fallen to Mr. Medvedev, whom he described as "an intelligent, contemporary man of liberal views".
Works far removed from contemporary man in time and in cultural background, composed in a variety of languages utterly different from one another in structure, have nevertheless been translated successfully enough to be deeply moving.
The anxieties of contemporary man (read Jules Feiffer) -- marital, sexual, occupational -- are wittily chronicled along with the hypocrisies of presidents and other politicians, the kind of satire that brought him a Pulitzer Prize in 1986.
If Jeff, with his boyish, wide-eyed stare and blank expression, personifies a spoiled contemporary man-child, Mr. Maguire makes this essentially disagreeable character almost sympathetic.
Jeans hang off arses, over-sized T- and sweat shirts abound and unlaced trainers are the sine qua non of any contemporary man-about-town's wardrobe.
"The Hangover Part III," which recently wrapped up the least self-aware, most lucrative cycle of contemporary man-child comedies, is already a zombie, a brain-dead thing kept in frenzied motion by autonomic reflexes and instinctive appetites, mostly for your money.
The performance style embraces "Saturday Night Live -style bLive -stylets, pastiches of contemporary man-of-the-people political ads and blackoutof skitslacerating pastichesliterally, as Rachel, played by Maria Elena Ramirez, and Andrew turn medical bleeding intofa love ritual).
But two long monologues from father and son, leavened only by an anti-semitic exchange with a moneylender and a patrician judgment from the local duke - a contemporary man-in-suit, for some reason, amid an all-male cast in shabby period dress - do not an opera make.
