Sentence examples for his pertinence from inspiring English sources

That he has inspired so much adoration and, partly in reaction, some loathing, can be considered a sign of both his eccentricity and his pertinence, which is to say, his modernity: people still react to him, as they do, for example, to van Gogh, with an intensity pretty much reserved for artists in their own time.

Make it new: productions of the Bard are popular because theatre is so good at revealing his contemporary pertinence.

They sum up both Mr. Samaras's roving, yet always-close-to-home sensibility and his enormous pertinence to the art of the present.

Stressing Nietzsche's Emersonian and pragmatist heirs, Ratner-Rosenhagen inevitably neglects some of his other pertinences.

A doctor only to the dead, he dwells at length on his work's pertinence to the living.

For all Wilson's sense of St Anthony's contemporary pertinence, his story of a hallucinating hermit is an old one.

Decades after Mr. Frank's death in 1980, however, the pertinence of his specific desires is growing less clear.

British voters may discern echoes here of the UK general election of 2015, in which Ed Miliband hoped he was grappling with the pressing problems of the hour, in terms of predatory capitalism and stagnant pay, but discovered that the zeitgeisty pertinence of his prescriptions was no match for the age-old charge that the left couldn't balance the books.

But as so often with Moore, his sheer energy, wit and pertinence win you over.

Estranged from her painter father at the age of eight, the making of his giant head has special pertinence.

Of the three, Courbet's art may be the strangest of all, and in a time when seemingly old-fashioned representational painting is thriving, his work has a striking pertinence.