Sentence examples for contemporary modes from inspiring English sources

Obviously, part of a war's cultural milieu reflects contemporary modes in the countries involved.

Ladies' costumes, following the caprices of the contemporary modes, included a pannier.

One of the least likely answers to that conundrum would be Ed Sheeran's muscular pop-folk, one of the most successful contemporary modes of British pop.

All praise is indeed due to Anderson and Tarantino and Soderbergh, but they're no throwbacks; they're contemporary artists, working in contemporary modes, and they often take the kind of critical brickbats today that their forebears, whether Hawks or Hitchcock or Fuller, took in 1960.

Van de Velde, the leading spokesman for the movement as well as one of its most skilled practitioners, in his essay "Déblaiement d'art" (1892) advocated the development of a new art, one that would be both vital and moral, like the great decorative arts of the past, but that would use contemporary modes.

While he narrates his life to himself in lucid contemporary modes, whenever he reaches out to strangers in coffee shops, alleyways or trains, his idiom seems wonderfully awkward, if not outdated: "Hey brother, mind if I sit here?" "How about you, friend — kids?" "Join the club, sister.

To shut off any part of it with terms that render that part opaque, and beyond understanding, is no longer a contemporary mode of thinking.

Parental memoirists, caught somewhere between feelings of disloyalty and the chic contemporary mode that demands that we tell all and affix damages, don't take this stuff lightly.

AT 23 WILLY MOON is a throwback artist in the most contemporary mode, with an ear for melding early rock sounds with synthy production and hip-hop beats.

Wheelwright designs in a contemporary mode, so there was no question of getting what Simmons calls "a heavy Victorian thing your grandmother made by hand," but, as the architect explains, "it wasn't just the style that needed updating".

Because Tolkien's Middle-earth is an imaginary world set in a timeless, prescientific past when the miraculous was magical rather than technological, Mr. Shore had the tricky challenge of evoking mystical and mythological times in an accessible contemporary mode.