Sentence examples for contemporary place from inspiring English sources

I wanted to keep it a more contemporary place.

He comes at it from a very contemporary place, but he's also respectful of the gospel tradition".

I wanted to set the story in a slightly altered reality, on an island that operates by its own logic but is still a recognizably contemporary place.

Lisbon architect Vânia Fernandes and her brother Carlos have redesigned their grandparents' old fishing cottage as a contemporary place to stay.

Three-story lanterns punctuated with vertical stainless steel blades, they introduce the note of pastiche at precisely the climactic moment when the towers should claim a contemporary place in the skyline.

Proving that family friendly needn't mean functional and uninspiring, the 10 self-catering rooms, studios and apartments at this hilltop retreat have been crafted from local materials – slate, terracotta, bamboo and the adobe-like taipa – to create a stylish and contemporary place to stay.

There is also the recent reissue of Alfred Watkins's cult book of landscape mysticism, The Old Straight Track (1925), the argument of which is largely built around the views from hills, and the totemic status among contemporary place-writers of JA Baker's The Peregrine (1967) – all bloody killing, field-haunting and ritual reperformance.

Bill Brown, an elegant contemporary, placed his team-mate above Len Hutton because of Morris's devastating hooking ability.

In Cape Town we have some excellent contemporary places, such as Whatiftheworld and Stevenson, but these mostly focus on single artist shows rather than a broad contextual sweep.

The spa has taxidermy above the pool, antiques complement floral wallpapers, cowhides and antlers abound, and after several nights in villages without such options, I have to appreciate the vision of the hotel owners who have created such beautiful, contemporary places to stay in such remoteness.

Among the reasons to visit Paris, Saint-Gaudens's son recognized one that would migrate with the times: Only in France could an artist "measure himself with his contemporaries, place his work before the world's most critical audience, and learn, once for all, wherein it was good and wherein bad".