Sentence examples for for a contemporary reader from inspiring English sources

The books, which were originally written in the 1930s and then revised in the 1950s and 1960s, today seem rather dated, with racial stereotypes and cliches that can occasionally make for slightly uncomfortable reading for a contemporary reader.

However, this aspect of his work is difficult to accept for a contemporary reader, in particular because it involves the utopian idea of the virgin mother, which means parthenogenesis for human beings.

2) As reflected above spiritual texts are conveying a multidimensional significance that goes beyond empirical definiteness and leaves room for an ever new adaptation from a contemporary reader's perspective and context.

To a contemporary reader like Cole, fait divers also have another characteristic: they are eminently tweetable.

Those thoughts are too honourable, too beatifically wise to convince a contemporary reader, but the reader forgives.

Needless to say, to a contemporary reader this view sounds extremely antiquated and even sexist.

I don't think the term, "getting wrecked," was one the Edwardians used, but it adds a dimension for the contemporary reader.

Perhaps this is what it takes to turn boring old ancient Rome into a page-turner for the contemporary reader, though Tacitus managed to do it with a lot more literary panache.

The novel is mostly a lark — superficial in the best, breezy sense — but it does contain a few morals for the contemporary reader who may have gazed upon the micro chicken concerns popping up on his block or in the backyard next door and mused, How hard could it be?

Spanning the extended field of knowledge in which today's digital practices have found their roots, her anthology provides an indispensable documentation for the contemporary reader.

The no less electrifying Sonnet 144 ("Two loves I have, of comfort and despair") he dismisses as "a dog's dinner" with little interest for the contemporary reader.