At the same time it left him free, within prescribed limits, to represent the manners of contemporary life.
Painting, though more closely connected with Christianity, more perfectly related to conditions of contemporary life, owed strength and vigor in great measure to the same conditions.
Has the Drama of Contemporary Life a Root of its Own?
Impressionism has been made known to them principally by the controversies and by the fruitful consequences of this movement for the illustration and study of contemporary life.
Since a long time this spirit has moved Degas to revel in the observation of contemporary life.
It caused the young painters to turn resolutely towards the aspects of contemporary life, and to draw style and emotion from their own epoch; and this intention was right.
Antonio and Mellida, a blood and thunder tragedy, and collaborated with Jonson and Chapman to produce Eastward Hoe, an excellent comic picture of contemporary life.
Increased modern interest in contemporary life is also demanding some account of the literature already produced by the twentieth century.
The illustrations of the 'Garden of Delights' which have been preserved are invaluable for the study of contemporary life, but they contain no information as to contemporary events.
A reason for this must be sought in the drift of contemporary life, which we shall thus have to discuss at some length.
Then the child passes on to something corresponding, say, to the pastoral stage, and so on till at the time when he is ready to take part in contemporary life, he arrives at the present epoch of culture.
The continually increasing importance of economic factors in contemporary life makes it the more needed that education should reveal their scientific content and their social value.
As to the accuracy with which he gave a representation of contemporary life--thus deserving the name realist--considerable may be said in the way of qualification.
The fiction-makers rapidly came to realize that for their particular purpose--to portray a complicated piece of contemporary life--more leisurely movement and hence greater space are necessary to the best result.
He owes his success with the public of the twenties and his place in the history of art entirely to the fact that in spite of his strict classical training he was one of the first to interest himself, however little, in contemporary life.
His "Mass of Pius VII in the Sistine Chapel" is the only one of his many works which deals with a subject of contemporary life, and it was blamed by the critics because it deviated so far from the great style.
The eighteenth century had seen the rise of the novel as the picture of contemporary life; in Hogarth this national spirit was first turned to account in painting.
Between these two extremes of exaggeration, inspired by a self-interest easy to discover, is there not a true middle way that we can deduce from the study of Roman history and from the observation of contemporary life?
The theory that human beings have no more control over their appetites than beasts, while it has much to support it in contemporary life, cannot be admitted from the point of view of religion.
The sins that sapped the life of Ephesus are the same that degrade contemporary life.
He tears his gaze away from Paris, from the movement of contemporary life, which he regards as trivial.
The essential aim of the book is explained by its hero when he refers to the disparateness of contemporary life, to the manner in which its art has been severed into a thousand fragments.
In many cases, too, the figures he portrays recall personalities in contemporary life.
She wrote historical romances and novels of contemporary life, but the freshness of her early work was gone.
But minute studies of contemporary life failed to satisfy the demands within her.
Both comedies display the influence of classical Latin, but the latter sparkles with the humour and spontaneity of the comedy of contemporary life.
That character, soon to play an important part in comedy, appropriated certain tricks and aspects of the Vice, but the distinctive figure of the moral drama did not proceed from or ape the domestic fool of contemporary life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contemporary life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
