How to use "contemporary" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "contemporary" in popular movie and book plots

  • The song features an ingenious stage act, in which women appear against backdrops that look like the covers of contemporary magazines.  - Easter Parade (film)
  • The setting is 1990s contemporary Taipei, Taiwan.  - Eat Drink Man Woman
  • Lyman's position in the contemporary culture of the late sixties provides another historical dimension to the story.  - Angle of Repose
  • "New Rose Hotel" presents a bleak future as extrapolated from contemporary economic and social trends.  - New Rose Hotel
  • The show made use of many contemporary and older SF references.  - Mighty Orbots
  • The novel exploits contemporary fascination with the under-the-ice exploits of such American nuclear-powered submarines as , , and.  - Ice Station Zebra (novel)
  • The frame narrative, like many other stories by Rushdie, involves Indian expatriates in contemporary England.  - The Satanic Verses
  • The fragment breaks off as the young contemporary of Bach happens upon an organ recital in Stuttgart.  - The Glass Bead Game
  • Pandora describes the book as a protest against contemporary civilization, which the Kesh call "the Sickness of Man".  - Always Coming Home
  • Moriah have been rejected from contemporary versions of the Passion.  - Oberammergau Passion Play
  • Set in contemporary Paris, the story of the film is a variation of the classic Greek myth of Orpheus.  - Orpheus (film)
  • Here they spent several years, and Harrer describes the contemporary Tibetan culture in detail.  - Seven Years in Tibet
  • Gart Williams is a contemporary (c.  - A Stop at Willoughby
  • The narrator laments the crass materialism of contemporary society and the lack of creative understanding displayed by adults.  - The Little Prince
  • Although this account has long been accepted as part of Mafia lore, it is almost certainly false based on contemporary accounts of the time.  - Joseph Bonanno
  • The quality of image was often not as good as contemporary pen plotters.  - Plotter

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