The cleanliness and contemporary settings were beginning to make the atmosphere feel a little sterile, but beyond the exit door the sight of the ski lifts dropping off passengers barely 50m away promised good things.
Fictional accounts were often set in remote historical settings, the use of contemporary settings in fiction being a relatively recent phenomenon.
It has been common throughout the history of the play for the producers to commission contemporary settings of these two songs, and also of "Come Unto These Yellow Sands".
The odd thing was that none of these movies was set in the murky Victorian era: they all had contemporary settings, the 1910s and 1920s.
Delivered by a female performer in contemporary settings, the monologues demonstrate the mutability of language when those words come out of the mouths of the empowered versus the marginalized.
A loose retelling of the biblical story in contemporary settings.
Even when Hindi cinema moved into contemporary settings, the films largely remained morality plays with actors in archetypal roles.
Barely a dozen of the songs exist in contemporary settings, and not all of them are known to have been used in Shakespeare's own productions.
Even when the novels feature everyday, contemporary settings such as Elizabeth Strout's My Name Is Lucy Barton, AL Kennedy's Serious Sweet or David Szalay's All that Man Is, there is nothing simplistic or ordinary about them.
But most 21st century romance novels have contemporary settings, and the writers still throw in the fisting in this way, as though they learned it from old bodice rippers. .
