Sentence examples for then contemporary from inspiring English sources

In college, studying the British Empire and then contemporary fiction, the books were often dense but never staggeringly heavy.

If the Framers did not think they were establishing, say, a right to abortion, then contemporary judges should not recognize one, either.

Indeed, even the term impressionism was coined as a negative phrase by the then contemporary critic Louis Leroy, who declared that Monet's painting was, at most, a sketch, and could hardly be termed a finished work.

The then contemporary music programmer was Glen Max, whose main ambition seemed to be getting the Left Banke back together to play the Royal Festival Hall, the building their modern baroque sound was made for.

If this is right, then contemporary society is inimical to a life of integrity in many small-scale ways.

As the aim here is to perform a retrospective analysis of the 1976 crisis, the model is based on what was then contemporary knowledge of the volcanic system and includes only observations available at the time.

Others have managed to outlive their then contemporaries by exploring niches created by newly evolved, more advanced groups of organisms.

Together, these pictures recall a shared past and reflect on then-contemporary conditions in Holland.

Or, in pictures that take the then-contemporary political situation and transpose it to an earlier period.

Jane Tompkins, writing about Nathaniel Hawthorne, points out that the stories viewed as most important by then-contemporary critics were not "Young Goodman Brown" or "The Maypole of Merrymount" but "peripheral and thin" sketches like "Little Annie's Ramble".

Robert L. Jacobsen, Catskill, N.Y.: Sports movies, which seem to appeal to the shallow, unthinking and/or immature mind, do not define contemporary America any more than gladiatorial contests defined then-contemporary Rome.