Sentence examples for make it contemporary from inspiring English sources

After watching the BBC mini-series, he said, "I saw tons of great opportunities to make it our own, to make it contemporary, to broaden its scope and deepen its story".

They've been doing this for thousands of years — you just use technology to make it contemporary.

Bowker said: "The most startling thing is we didn't have to change anything to make it contemporary.

Rehberger said the challenge had been to take such a serious subject and make it contemporary and even funny.

"We agreed right at the beginning that we weren't going to make a period piece," said the director, Herbert Wise, 88. "We wanted to make it contemporary.

The response I usually got was, 'We'll make this movie, if you rewrite it to make it contemporary.' " (The movie was eventually released, with young actors including Kristen Stewart, cast before "Twilight," but flopped).

I tried making it contemporary in a way that, maybe, Molière would have liked.

I find the collection really exciting, partly because of the way he uses language – making it contemporary, fresh, but down-to-earth and unaffected at the same time.

Pulp also has a taste for disco that makes it contemporary in a way that peers like Oasis can't match, and it has just released a strong new disco-rooted song, "After You," produced by James Murphy.

On Ice Cups, he channels Raekwon's gritty yarn-spinning approach and makes it contemporary by taking on gentrification ("I didn't even know the word until I got some white neighbours … knock down the chicken spot, turn it into a bike shop").

Q: And you made it contemporary.