Sentence examples for material for contemporary from inspiring English sources
$21. WILL the horrors of the Holocaust ever cease to provide material for contemporary literature?
ROME — Dante's "Divine Comedy" is not, at first glance, obvious libretto material for contemporary musical theater.
If the show does nothing else, it demonstrates how widely and variously newspapers have served as raw material for contemporary art, old and new.
Its life-swap plot has proved irresistible source material for contemporary reworkings, most successfully by David Lodge in his Nice Work.
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter Helen Edmundson's adaptation is a mixed bag, falling into traps that may be unavoidable in any literal treatment of this material for contemporary audiences... Knightley is riveting as the volatile Thérèse broods over the consequences of her deeds, scrambling to show her tortured loyalty to Madame while shifting the blame.
This ongoing invasion of our intimate thoughts and feelings by "the market" has become a privileged material for contemporary art.
Indeed, while timber might have seemed yesterday's technology to the pre-war Modernists, it has become a tough and appropriate material for many contemporary architects - one that has the advantage of ageing well.
In the theological sphere Nicetas composed the Panoplia Dogmatike ("Thesaurus of Orthodoxy"), a collection of tracts to use as source material for responding to contemporary heresies and to document the 12th-century Byzantine philosophical movement.
Here was a mise-en-scène perfectly tailored to the wartime writer's search for contemporary material, an idea Sarah Waters has also explored in her 2006 novel The Night Watch.
This jazz singer's lean, sinewy performances of songs by Merle Haggard, Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe says a lot about how far the singer and saxophonist is willing to carry his search for contemporary material that others haven't mined.
Whether provable or not, Curtis Stigers's claim to being the first jazz singer to record a Merle Haggard song is certainly possible, and it says a lot about how far this singer and saxophonist is willing to carry his search for contemporary material that others haven't mined.
