Sentence examples for topicality in from inspiring English sources

The show tries for a sheen of topicality in the generational fault line between the younger couples.

I suppose a grown child's returning, wounded, to the nest has an extra topicality in these semi-recessionary days of Peter Pan progeny.

More recently, the self-consciously elusive quality of much of Degas's depiction has been increasingly acknowledged, as well as his underestimated shift away from topicality in later years.

Verdi's early opera about the mad, despotic ruler of Babylon has unexpected topicality in these bellicose days (Babylon lay near present-day Baghdad).

At least two of the texts have accrued an urgent topicality in the wake of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.

It wasn't until October 3rd that "The Daily Show" tiptoed back toward topicality, in a piece suggesting that among the disguises bin Laden might adopt was a Jennifer Aniston wig.

Extraordinary topicality was in evidence in last Sunday's episode where we saw Carrie's former boss Saul Berenson stopped at Beirut airport and his bag searched in breach of diplomatic protocol – by a Lebanese security man (who observes menacingly that the American has a Jewish-sounding name).

In summary, a picture of how language structure and topicality emerge in written text as complex phenomena can shed light into the collective cognitive processes we use to organize and store information, and find broad practical applications, for instance, in topic detection, literature analysis, and Web mining.

Given the focus on China, these lectures come with a built-in topicality even if Spence occasionally dips back as far as 551BC.

The datasets in our case studies are fairly diverse in topicality, time span, and size, as shown in Table 1.

Some of the drawings are timeless; others — like a February, 1963, cartoon by Alan Dunn, imagining the equestrian element in Jacqueline Kennedy's detail — have a topicality that can, in retrospect, be poignant.