I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
modern/contemporary poetry
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She finds modern poetry difficult.
recent/modern/contemporary history
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The country’s recent history is powerfully told in this film.
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account
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Extant examples of maps date from 1602 and there are contemporary accounts of mapping and the use of maps from considerably earlier.
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According to a contemporary account , the attendance figure was about 20, 000.
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Unfortunately, there is no contemporary account of the setting up of the archdiocese of Lichfield.
art
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With contemporary art , there is not always a right or wrong answer.
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Since its opening in 1978 the gallery has been seen as the main centre for contemporary art in the city.
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It features a collection of contemporary art that, for the most part, is bad.
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The emphasis of Rizzoli's spring list is definitely on contemporary art .
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As it turns. out, I know a deal about contemporary art .
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In June 1991, the Jeu de Paume reopened its doors, this time as an exhibition centre devoted to contemporary art .
artist
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Through photographic images we see a few of the attempts by contemporary artists to find the real face.
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You name your favorite contemporary artist and odds are they are involved.
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The Eighties were an important decade for sculpture when many contemporary artists turned to three-dimensional work.
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Nevertheless, many contemporary artists were having their drawings and paintings photographed rather than engraved and sold in different formats.
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She saw feet sinking into the thick pile of the new rugs whose abstract patterns evoked the work of contemporary artists .
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March 2-April 1: Uncommercial Art by Commercial Artists , a group exhibit featuring seven major contemporary artists.
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The gallery is based in Trinity College and shows work by contemporary artists from both Ireland and abroad.
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He had a particular interest in works by contemporary artists and was a pioneer in the development of artist-in-residence programs.
culture
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What is evident is that the age of electronic records opens numerous possibilities that will enrich the understanding of contemporary culture .
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We considered media education largely as part of the exploration of contemporary culture , alongside more traditional literary texts.
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Pupils should have the opportunity to apply their critical faculties to these major parts of contemporary culture .
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The exhibition became a milestone in feminist analysis of contemporary culture .
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Some instinctive appreciation of this fact may have given rise to the mystique which surrounded £40 a year in contemporary culture .
dance
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Over a three-month period, opera attracted 1 percent of the population but ballet and contemporary dance fewer than 1 percent.
history
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Unfortunately, never in contemporary history have economic sanctions felled a regime, no matter how weak.
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I do not need to detain the House with a contemporary history of that sad state.
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Tuggener charted a contemporary history that was on the move.
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Between the years 1988 and 1991 I was engaged in researching a contemporary history of Venice.
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There is a particular problem with contemporary history .
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The emphasis is on modern and contemporary history .
issue
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At Level Two students will plan and undertake an investigation into a contemporary issue of their choice.
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What are the implications for the state of such contemporary issues as security, regionalism and the international character of the economy?
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Some films show their makers grappling with contemporary issues , without always the level of visual inventiveness applied elsewhere.
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Some alluded to specifically contemporary issues .
life
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Delacroix's journal is articulate, concerned with other arts as well as painting, besides containing much comment on contemporary life .
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Printed in the shrill neons of commercial art, these leering posters document the slick, creeping hucksterism of contemporary life .
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You can also overcome one of the worst problems in contemporary life , that of cold coffee.
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He introduced characters and problems from contemporary life such as arranging suitable marriages.
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While there were fewer portrayals of contemporary life than in Soviet art, not all western artists looked inwards.
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They were also too crude to cope with the complexity of contemporary life in Britain.
music
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One of the most disliked is contemporary music .
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Particularly if it means introducing contemporary music to Angelenos.
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He has a keen interest in contemporary music and is a founder member of the ensemble Capricorn.
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What the future entails is some very contemporary music slipped into concerts featuring lovable old favorites.
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I think we've got aesthetics to offer that aren't around in contemporary music .
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Mass Media: As of yet, there is no national contemporary music paper in the Soviet Union.
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It is also useful for some contemporary music where a light, jazz-style accompaniment is required.
society
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It is this which he takes as the key to an understanding of contemporary society , and of culture itself.
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Although the Stuart-Meredith growth charts have survived for 30 years, their usefulness in contemporary society is limited.
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But the health and wealth of contemporary society blinds us to the decadence and moral sickness under our noses.
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The new religious revival is fueled by a revulsion with the corruptions of contemporary society .
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This is not to deny, of course, that crime and violence in contemporary society is an important social reality.
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Much of contemporary society seems disadvantaged by a management view that extends not much beyond immediate profit preoccupations.
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Undoubtedly teachers fulfil an important function in contemporary society .
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Religion is not compartmentalized, but a living part of contemporary society , reflecting where it is and what its potentials are.
woman
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It is the biggest visual production ever printed on the work of contemporary women artists in this country.
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Lest we begin feeling too sorry for these fellows, consider the plight of the contemporary woman .
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Fantasy has continued to interest several other contemporary women writers, such as Emma Tennant and Angela Carter, in this way.
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Prescriptives is for the contemporary woman who demands the same high standards from her beauty products as she expects from her wardrobe.
works
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It is good for children to respond to good contemporary works , written both for children and for adults.
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In 1856 the Bissons were reproducing and exhibiting photographs of contemporary works of art.
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Yet these are undeniably contemporary works .
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Western interest has increased since glasnost, but has concentrated on the more contemporary works of the 1970s and 1980s.
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The Skopos Challenge exhibits 150 contemporary works selected by leading quilters, showing bed and cot quilts and wall hangings.
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Indeed, the Rue-des-Bois landscapes already have much in common with Braque's contemporary works .
world
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In the 1990s it's a symbol of the contemporary world .
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The contemporary world is not entirely eschewed; the baby still wears his romper suit.
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To what extent is it possible to align states and nations in the contemporary world ?
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Record retention will lead to a skewed vision of the contemporary world .
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The problems of ethno-nationalism and of multiple nations within a single state are endemic in the contemporary world .
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The essential effect of such knowledge was to alienate Chesterton and Williamson from the contemporary world .
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Comparative political systems in the contemporary world .
writer
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These, however, are indicated in scores and livrets and noted by contemporary writers on opera performance.
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Such consolidation was indeed commended by contemporary writers on agriculture.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Contemporary Indian cinema has its roots in folk culture.
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Composers like Philip Glass have made contemporary music more popular.
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I'm not very impressed by the works of many contemporary artists.
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The cafe's decor is clean and contemporary .
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the declining importance of religion in contemporary societies
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It is arguably the greatest source of violence and death in the contemporary political world.
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It was strongly influenced by the contemporary art movement known as Constructivism, which was being energetically pursued.
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Since its opening in 1978 the gallery has been seen as the main centre for contemporary art in the city.
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The methods available are constantly increasing in number and their utility is greater as the complexity of contemporary processes is revealed.
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This latter was especially troublesome because the contemporary theory dismissed it as self-correcting.
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Thus, contemporary ontological debates relating to the photograph are divergent.
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To put the same observation in more contemporary terms, families learn about what marriage means from their experience of marriage.
II. noun
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young
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Other parts of my argument derive from Malinowski, Mauss and Levi-Strauss, as well as from various of my younger contemporaries .
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But because it was idealistic it was the more persuasive when he preached it to his young contemporaries .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Atkins is still working, long after many of his contemporaries have retired.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But this was not clear to contemporaries.
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More than almost any of her predecessors or contemporaries, Pires underlines this generic relationship.
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The following portrait sketches by contemporaries are, there-fore, of special interest.
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The music, by Brecht's contemporaries Weill and Eisler, adds atmosphere and reinforces the strong protest against tyranny and persecution.
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The problem was considered particularly vexing because, as the research of contemporaries showed, it affected middle class women most.
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This, they suggest, can be seen in the Tagar culture, a contemporary of the Pazyryk tombs.
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To most of his contemporaries Blake was a nutter or simply inept.