Sentence examples for once contemporary from inspiring English sources

Yet all works of art were once contemporary.

Ms. Zeisel's signature became just that: forms that were at once contemporary and lyrical.

Throughout the book, the children travel widely in an Ireland at once contemporary and ageless.

Over the past decade, he has become well known for designs that feel at once contemporary and ancient.

THE stone and steel towers of Manhattan loom large across the screen, appearing at once contemporary yet oddly quaint.

The snobs, drunkards, pedophiles, fools, tyrants, and addicts who pass through these pages are garishly demonic, in a way that seems at once contemporary and oddly timeless.

Many writers are attempting to tap into this passionate conversation by producing a stream of historical fiction sequels to once-contemporary novels, such as PD James's take on Pride and Prejudice, the recently televised Death Comes to Pemberley; Sally Beauman herself embarked on this most meta-fictional of readerly responses through her Du Maurier sequel, Rebecca's Tale, set in the 1950s.

These manage to feel at once absolutely contemporary and timeless.

Britain's once sleepy contemporary art market has exploded.

What's interesting is that once again, contemporary art has been ahead of the curve.

"All good artists, after all, were once the contemporary artists, the bad boys, of their day, all going against the grain in some way.