Despite the pretentious choice to shoot in black-and-white (also looking at you, "Roma"), the romantic story at the heart of this keeps the narrative zipping along at a contemporary pace.
The frenetic pace of contemporary life is having a devastating impact on this planet.
The idea of getting dressed all at once communicates a sense of the frenetic pace of contemporary life.
In truth, the busy traffic of "Tales of the City" may be more attuned to the pace of contemporary culture than the studied reflectiveness of "4000 Miles".
In Ethiopia major droughts are crippling herdsman who - used to adapting to changing conditions - are not able to keep up with the pace of contemporary climate change.
Can you recommend any books that offer a good sense of contemporary Australian politics?The pace of political change in Australia has been so rapid over the past eight months that authors and publishers have barely kept up.
Fear of flying has become the archetypal modern phobia, the focal point of our discomforts about technology, about the pace of contemporary life, about ceding control to forces unseen and barely understood.
In addition to questions like competitive balance in the major leagues and the lack of revenue sharing among teams, baseball faces a more fundamental issue: is it out of step with the hamster-treadmill pace of contemporary American life?
Large cities not devoted to a leisured life, or class, rarely include a walk that is exclusively a promenade because the pace of contemporary life set by the automobile, and the chance of being a victim of crime, detract from its original purpose as a place for strolling.
Yet a significant portion of its people, many more, apparently, than the traditional party system could absorb, are angry just the same — about the influx of immigrants from the Middle East and Africa, about crime and violence, or about what Merkel called the "pace of contemporary life". Now many are angry over the rise of the right.
