"They play to test the contingencies of their world".
Their poems reflected the contingencies of their own lives; they would never truly be finished.
"The contingencies of war are unpredictable," said Senator Pat Roberts, the Kansas Republican who is chairman of the Intelligence Committee.
I tend to think that the contingencies of Cal's genetic condition would trump those of any other affiliation.
I rarely stop to consider that the meaning of a work is to some degree — and maybe, in the end, entirely — captive to the contingencies of history.
Wilson's deep knowledge of insects led him to propose a new model for the evolution of altruism, which he decided was rooted in the contingencies of natural history.
Welles's peculiar childhood, surrounded by noted opera singers, instrumentalists, and donors, may have given him an early and heightened awareness of the contingencies of musical expression.
She lived her politics so personally and yet so publicly, always stressing her dependence upon the lives of others and the contingencies of history.
All the randomness uncovered by the microscopic scrutiny of the Florida vote is magnified by the biggest wild card of all -- the contingencies of human events.
ADAM GOPNIK: A very big question, and of course the institutional character of the Church, not to mention the contingencies of history, are hugely important here.
It's tempting to think of the enterprise of public health as separate from the contingencies of politics and culture, as if those were just distractions.
