Sentence examples for contemporary writings from inspiring English sources

The passages "illuminate as only contemporary writings can," Gerald Carson said in these pages in 1971.

Originalists claim to interpret the Constitution by relying on its words and on the contemporary writings of the Constitution's framers.

Selections include classical, modern, and contemporary writings chosen for their elegance of exposition and success at stimulating thought and discussion.

"I had read references to it in both classical and contemporary writings and was eager to know the London of Chaucer and Erasmus and the Sorores Minores.

In the very many contemporary writings about global warming, the discussion has been centered around the negative impacts of climate change.

A comparable boom in the popularity of poetry was seen during the miners' strike in the 1980s and during the rise of Chartism in the 19th century, according to Katy Shaw, professor of contemporary writings at Northumbria University.

Al Filreis, the head of the contemporary-writing center at the University of Pennsylvania, thought that the reaction had something to do with the ambiguity of Goldsmith's method.

I describe the Cofán shaman as an embodiment of "valueless value," a concept I articulate in relation to Pierre Clastres' notion of "powerless power". I suggest that we can understand the social dynamics of Cofán shamanism by joining the concept of valueless value to an unorthodox strand of Marxian anthropology and contemporary anthropological writings on ethics and morality.

While the focus is chiefly on contemporary philosophical writings, the philosophies of the past (and their continued influence) have an important role to play.

Maimon also seems to borrow from Kabbalistic and contemporary Hassidic writings the idea of an infinite process through which one "strives to turn matter into form," though he will interpret this formula in metaphysical rather than ethical terms.

Although there is little doubt that Grosseteste was to some extent influenced by his contemporaries, his writings show little concern to engage in debate with them, in contrast with the practice of his contemporaries in Paris.