Sentence examples for shockingly contemporary from inspiring English sources

The issues of women's rights were shockingly contemporary.

"The Maias" must have seemed shockingly contemporary in its verismo: its narrative ends in 1887, just a year before the book was published.

The museum, thirty-three thousand square feet right at the base of the ski mountain, is a behemoth by local standards — shockingly contemporary and, at forty-seven feet, dangerously close to upstaging the Wheeler.

It was shockingly contemporary.

(You will already be familiar with this fascinating figure if you've seen Werner Herzog's 2010 movie Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the shockingly contemporary-seeming art found in the Chauvet cave in southern France).

Using the glamour of 1930s society as the collection's setting, she envisioned Amies hobnobbing with the likes of Josef Albers and other artists of the time, and created a beautifully graphic "Bauhaus check" wool for a three-piece suit that was shockingly and elegantly contemporary.

And for contemporary Nashville, shockingly topical.

FEW contemporary voices have aged more shockingly than Joni Mitchell's.

"Goblin" is spiteful, internal, confident, vitriolic, vividly bruised stuff, a shocking — and shockingly good — album that bears little resemblance to contemporary hip-hop.

To anyone who'd lived or travelled in that vast red and yellow region these paintings feel shockingly authentic, even to viewers with little exposure to contemporary art.

A more contemporary example is the Bosnian War from the early 1990's that shockingly occurred in the heart of Europe right near Italy and Greece.