Sentence examples for contemporary standard from inspiring English sources

They don't feel right replacing them with contemporary standard doors.

The Armstrong version has since become a contemporary standard.

The vividity of the recreation of "the Neighbourhood" has led critics to laud Ferrante as the contemporary standard bearer of Italian neorealism.

(And in "Heart's Desire," the touching ballad that he co-wrote with Dave Frishberg, Broadbent can also lay claim to a contemporary standard).

Kevin Rudd established the contemporary standard of actions taken in pursuit of an operatic grievance, but rather than fleeing from that particular example in horror, various politicians seem intent on perpetuating the cycle.

The clarinet, apparently derived from the chalumeau a Renaissance instrument with a somewhat lower range than the contemporary standard B-flat clarinet was not invented until the early 18th century.

One of the most promising was Rebekah Lowin, a Columbia undergraduate, whose renditions of "My Heart Was Set on You," a contemporary standard-in-waiting by Jeff Blumenkrantz, and Billy Joel's "Lullabye," delivered in a sweet, light voice, were impressive for their freshness and lack of self-dramatization.

That's humdrum by contemporary standards.

The menu features contemporary standards.

"Contemporary standards have changed radically," he said.

But the hours in question were few by contemporary standards.