Sentence examples for contemporary tendency from inspiring English sources

It's the simplicity that Weisbecker particularly admires, noting a contemporary tendency to overdesign.

It is understandable that Mount Vernon would want to distance itself from the contemporary tendency to chip away at marble heroes, showing their vulnerable underbellies, undermining their stature.

This contemporary tendency in which black writers lay claim to the discourse of black music — this increasing tendency — is a much needed development for anyone who cares about modern music.

The German enthusiasm for Aldridge may seem strange, given the contemporary tendency to view nineteenth-century German culture as a continuous crescendo toward the racial hatred of the Nazi era.

The contemporary tendency is to overlook such qualifications, even to suggest that what went awry in the treatment of the buffalo, or the natural landscape, was not an accidental aspect of 19th-century American culture but its defining characteristic.

He manages to find subtle signs of the effects of this philosophy everywhere, such as the contemporary tendency to demand a sort of genial blandness in any shared environment.

Against contemporary tendencies that require quick and visible results, invoked by the current call for (statistical) evidence and the need to come up with quick result to show a sponsor he gets value for money, we propose an approach that takes sufficient time to prepare policy and programming.

Perl quotes a letter in which Watteau laments his contemporaries' tendency to pile on the "arbitrary arabesques" and vine motifs that would soon overrun their images and spill into the style that came to be known as Rococo.

Throughout his career Oscar Wilde battled his contemporaries' tendency to look at literary works through the lens of the author.

With his eye for non-academic significance, Williams latterly tackled the contemporary relativist tendency to undermine the notion of truth.

The show is not perfect, but it is now, even more, a nervy statement about a contemporary art tendency in a city whose museums rarely make them.