Sentence examples for were not contemporary from inspiring English sources

What if the setting were not contemporary America but something glamorous, and foreign, and historical?

But it is really no more than a gentler version of Juzo Itami's Japanese comedy "The Funeral .The best Asian films seen in Hong Kong this year were not contemporary.

Because of his own timidity and melancholy, he goes on to say, the figures to whom he was attracted were not contemporary authors like Edmund White and Jeanette Winterson, "whose novels had done so much to clear the air and make things easier for gay people," but rather "other figures from an earlier time, whose legacy was ambiguous, who had suffered for their homosexuality".

They're not contemporary or sexy.

"We are not contemporary types".

But in another way, it's not contemporary at all.

She's giving it her all, but the result is not contemporary dance.

"It's not contemporary, is it?" my 10-year old companion asked in sudden anticipatory horror as we entered the theater one night.

McDonald's look "is not contemporary anymore," considering outlets of Starbucks or Panera Bread, the research firm said.

They're great songs but they're not contemporary.

The principal sources for the early Sassanid period are not contemporary.