Sentence examples for contemporary rather than from inspiring English sources

But the collection's forte was in the prints: digging into Asian nature but making it seem contemporary, rather than flowery.

Bashaija was one of the dancers – in the contemporary rather than the traditional category, he told me.

The points he made about Islamic radicalism being deeply contemporary rather than a throwback to the middle ages, as it's so often characterised, were seminal.

Instead of complex character analysis he has delivered a well-organized, highly user-friendly book with an emphasis on the contemporary rather than the quaint.

It's clean, functional and contemporary rather than homely; downstairs has an urban feel, with a black-walled pizza and burger restaurant lit by bare bulbs.

We have a hunger to learn how to live our lives, and if we accept that people would prefer to read something contemporary rather than Montaigne, they could do far worse than to pick this up.

His contemporaries, rather than allowing themselves to be shaken by his frank statements of the human condition and his joyous appreciation of the human body, ignored him.

It can and should be argued that any consideration of graduates' employment needs to be contextualised against their contemporaries, rather than making unrealistic comparisons between institutions that draw from significantly different demographics.

And contrary to previous claims both scholarly and popular about his vocabulary and word coinage, the evidence of vocabulary size and word-use frequency places Shakespeare with his contemporaries, rather than apart from them.

Woods' subtitle not only indicates this fact, but also makes clear that Greenaway's films must be considered in light of his wider body of work, and, more importantly, that his work must be considered within the context of contemporary art rather than contemporary cinema.

In theory, this makes for an edgier choice, although it does mean that the show tends to favour the kind of contemporary art admired by other contemporary artists, rather than, say, by collectors or gallerists or critics.