He might hear a few "contemporary" phrases.
When dictionaries wrangle contemporary phrases and modern slang, they can count on two reactions: misguided indignation and mirth.
Most historians and popular memory credit Roosevelt's leadership for the country's change of heart, but Olson points out that for much of that period Roosevelt was — to borrow a contemporary phrase — leading from behind.
They traipsed round the tourist traps (starting with the birthplace of the Prophet), building up to the hajj itself, when the compass of the city expanded, in a splendid contemporary phrase, like "a uterus for the foetus".
A formality of diction is intermingled with contemporary vernacular phrasing, a purposeful anachronism that is mirrored in the body language of the actors.
In lyrical moments, like the clarinet line that opens the second-movement Adagio, it seemed as if the players were overcompensating for being out of their usual modern and contemporary repertory, phrasing with exaggerated intensity.
A few contemporary colloquial phrases make subdued but significant appearances in the text.
No less a personage than Klaus Biesenbach, the Museum of Modern Art's new chief curator at large, recently told The Art Newspaper that he preferred the phrase "contemporary practice" to "contemporary art" in order to include fashion, film, design and more.
To adopt a couple contemporary turns of phrases, the warrants or inference tickets provided are therefore pro tanto and occasion-sensitive.
