Sentence examples for except for the contemporary from inspiring English sources

It would be irrelevant to mention that Evelyn is white and Rita is black, except for the contemporary stereotype of the big, strong African-American woman holding her family and, as much as she can, her community together.

Pevsner commented that "the hall windows themselves are different from all other 17th-century Gothic windows in Oxford except for the exactly contemporary hall bay-window of Exeter".

And, fortunately for the contemporary viewer, Shout!

All 159 works are from the academy's permanent collection, except for 10 contemporary pieces selected by Mr. Price to represent current trends.

His camera lingers on Civil War monuments but generally shies away from contemporary battles, except for the odd American flag or "Obama-Biden" bumper sticker.

As for the setting (designed by John Arnone), it's the last word in anonymous contemporary chic, except for the unsettling presence of all that tribal art, which suggests a more primal, even eternal order of things.

Some of her lyrics could be from the fifties, or any decade since, except for contemporary details that make your eyebrows fly up: "You haven't got a clue or another thing to do except take another picture of yourself".

Except for the freakish exceptions.

It seems unlikely that any future exists for operetta except as part of a "museum" repertory, because the contemporary musical has taken its place in musical theatre.

Interestingly, these domains were contemporary present only in plants, except for the multidrug-efflux transporter NAEGRDRAFT_78193 from the amoeboid Naegleria gruberi.

Except for the plainchant and a version of "The Lord's Prayer" by the contemporary composer John Tavener, the additions were from the 16th and early 17th centuries.