Sentence examples for contemporary playing from inspiring English sources

In many ways, with Asda and Tesco as the primary outlets for retail sales, and the album charts stagnant, it could be argued that Heart is at the vanguard of what most people regard as contemporary – playing tracks from Amy Winehouse's Back To Black and Take That's Beautiful World as if they were new releases.

One account has it that the cannonball flew between the Captain-General's legs before hitting the unfortunate colonel, whose torso fell at Marlborough's feet – a moment subsequently depicted in a lurid set of contemporary playing cards.

It's difficult to imagine one of Roache's contemporaries playing Father Greg with anything quite like this actor's brand of understatement.

Back in the day, he was known for his vitriol, sideswiping his contemporaries, playing with journalists, alienating all and sundry in interviews, a real smart mouth.

This was another good idea: Carl Erskine, one of Lasorda's contemporaries, played the national anthem on his harmonica.

He was so earnest and so honest that games of political tact that his contemporaries played better, like Jefferson and Burr, he couldn't play them".

I wanted a contemporary play about that period.

Were you looking for a new, contemporary play?

I wanted to do contemporary plays with a social conscience".

Many contemporary plays permit no approach other than realism, which must be achieved by suggestion.

Social problems and the integration of traditional and modern ways were common themes in contemporary plays.