Sentence examples for contemporary preference from inspiring English sources

Contemporary keyboard fingering systems, which used the thumb much less than modern ones, also served contemporary preference for subtlety and unevenness of rhythm.

We've turned away somewhat from "messages" and "thesis plays"; the contemporary preference is for authorial blankness, not of style but of commentary; we like stark juxtapositions and moral emptiness, the responsibility placed on the audience to make the judgment.

Our contemporary preference for government rescues has its roots in the Great Depression, when Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon became notorious for his contention that, even as the economy was collapsing, the market should simply be allowed to do its work.

There's never been anything quite like it on television: at its best, it suggests what Sheridan's "The Rivals" or "The School for Scandal" might be like set in the Manhattan of the millennium, with a contemporary preference for frankness over euphemism in the discussion of sex.

Over at The Big Chill, Shreya Kumar's Bollywood dance classes will cater for traditional and contemporary preferences.

It reflects the contemporary intellectual preference in higher education for integrating the theory and practice of a discipline, and for reducing the divisions between vocational and academic qualifications.

Square or flat iron bars were generally used to produce designs that were usually light, airy, and graceful and rather in contrast to the contemporary European preference for sturdier forms.

This study was designed to elucidate the contemporary practice preferences of cardiac surgeons regarding different phases of management of acute type A aortic dissection.

Following Heller, Scalia's scholarship was widely panned by respected historians such as Jack Rakove of Stanford University for its "faulty rethinking of the Second Amendment" and Saul Cornell of Fordham University for being "an intellectual shell game in which contemporary political preferences are shuffled around and made to appear part of the Constitution's original meaning".

Vegas has become the very emblem of the contemporary, computer-induced preference for the virtual over the real, the special effect over the natural, fantasy and the fantastic over the everyday.

Informed by implicit leadership theories, this study investigates contemporary Chinese employees' preferences for paternalistic leadership (including three components: moral leadership, benevolent leadership and authoritarian leadership) and transformational leadership.