"contemporary" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He had been the friend of most of his eminent contemporaries, and was much beloved for his amiable character.
- Probably during his period in Antwerp after his return from Italy, van Dyck began his Iconography, eventually a very large series of prints with half-length portraits of eminent contemporaries.
- Two of his eminent contemporaries, the Monophysites Jacob of Serugh (451-521) and Philoxenus of Mabbogh (d. 523), wrote letters in condemnation of his teaching.
- Dennett thinks, for example, that by claiming that minds cannot be reduced to purely algorithmic processes, many of his eminent contemporaries are claiming that miracles can occur.
- Walker's work consists of about one hundred portraits of eminent contemporaries, after various oil painters, chiefly in mezzotint, all published by himself.
- The Quinquagenas is a collection of quaint, moralizing anecdotes in which Oviedo indulges in much lively gossip concerning eminent contemporaries.
- His playing was virtuosic, and as a performer he was rated above eminent contemporaries including César Franck.
- Kalivoda was a highly prolific composer, and was held in high regard during his lifetime by such eminent contemporaries as Robert Schumann.
- The book is light and fantastic satire on the actions and writings of his eminent contemporaries, and some of its happier hits are among the hackneyed felicities of literature.
- Apparently his eminent literary contemporaries did not realize that a celebrated poet had passed from their midst.
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