In general, Houbraken tends to follow the contemporary prejudices of the hierarchy of genres and undervalue landscapists, marine artists and painters of still life.

Prehistoric dangers and contemporary prejudices.

We falsely congratulate ourselves on the progressiveness of contemporary welfare provision, ignoring not only its insufficiency but also the fact that much of the need itself is an artificial creation of contemporary social prejudices against people continuing at work.

We know more, we discover extra documents, we use infra-red light to pierce erasures in the correspondence, and we are free of contemporary prejudice; so we understand better.

This was also probably partly the result of the biographers' following contemporary prejudices against marine, landscape, and still life painting, regarded as the lowest in the hierarchy of genres.

The question of whether or not women ought to participate in combat roles is a nonstarter but for contemporary cultural prejudice.

Look, Spice," I said, "you know I don't share contemporary Terran prejudices any more than you do-I don't insist that I be the one to support us.

Modern historians Radu Florescu and Raymond T. McNally have concluded that the theory Báthory murdered on account of her vanity sprung up from contemporary prejudices about gender roles.

To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Brontë sisters adopted androgynous first names.

The attention directed toward her, in parallel to the contemporary prejudices against education for women, was to have affected her and her opinions against educated women.