Sentence examples for topicality that from inspiring English sources
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.
The culture clash at work here — Google aces wielding the full, computer-assisted strength of their collective brainpower, one scholar fiddling with a quaint astrolabe — has a topicality that works to this novel's advantage.
But the invasion of Iraq has shaken English-speaking theater out a political torpor and into a fever of literal-minded topicality that hasn't been known since three decades ago.
But in its broader themes – refugees and orphans of war, the morality and consequences of western intervention – the show has acquired a topicality that has nothing to do with Vietnam.
With wip-smart writing, a sense of topicality that put even Law and Order to shame, and fine performances from the likes of Dylan McDermott, Steve Harris, and Camryn Manheim, and or a brief time it was literally the best show on network television.
He has that highly honed sense of irreverent topicality that daily newspapers and insatiable cyberspace demand.
There is a liveliness and topicality here that has been lacking from much recent Irish theatre: McMahon and his collaborators are talents to watch.
There's a topicality to the jokes that is refreshing.
Modern costumes and film of aerial bombardment underscore the topicality of a play that deals both with Middle Eastern conflict and the struggle to achieve a world beyond faith.
His last completed feature, "The Interpreter," with Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn hashing out the traumas of postcolonial African politics at the United Nations, struggled to find the mix of topicality and high intrigue that had come so easily in the '70s, but it mostly seemed forced and preposterous.
There may be intakes of breath, in audiences here, when Bond says that American intelligence services "will lie down with anybody," and when even the temperate M blurts out, "I don't give a shit about the C.I.A.," but how can we seriously ascribe topicality to a thriller that pays no heed to actual foes, such as Al Qaeda, presumably for fear of denting the market overseas?
