What is "contemporary world"

Usage examples of "contemporary world".

It was Maya's best window into the contemporary world, and more and more her way of speaking back to it, doing her best to shape it-very satisfying indeed, as many of the plays caused talk, sometimes even a furor, as new works by the Group attacked the anti-immigrant government that was still in power in Mangala.

The Gothic tale became, not a picture of the contemporary world, but of its undercurrents of despair and hopelessness.

They emerged fullblown into the existing contemporary world, with its generation-long antipathies and hatreds.

Toward the end of the Game days these representatives of the secular powers occasionally deign to suggest that the length of the festival deters many other cities from sending envoys, and that perhaps it would be more in keeping with the contemporary world either to shorten the festival considerably or else to hold it only every other year, or every third year.

Our society has changed enormously from those times, and the greatest problems of survival in the contemporary world can be understood in terms of this conflict –.

However this does not mean that the placing of Mordor (the seat of evil in The Lord of the Rings) in the East is an allegorical reference to contemporary world politics, for as Tolkien himself affirmed it was a simple narrative and geographical necessity.

The flier extolled the glories of Manutius in the service of culture, then stated, with some catchy phrases, that the contemporary world sought truths deeper and more luminous than those science could provide: “.

They might have no predators in the contemporary world, no checks on their growth.