A bad case there of late-twentieth-century intellectual dry rot.    From Wordnik.com.  [ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM] Reference

It was a late-twentieth-century transit guide to greater metropolitan London.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the World to Come]

Indeed, they are taken straight from the playbook of late-twentieth-century racism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gary Younge on Geraldine Ferraro] Reference

The goal, virtually unheard of in late-twentieth-century America, is to pump more cars into the downtown.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Main Street Can Learn From the Mall] Reference

In both nineteenth-century and late-twentieth-century texts, the Byronic hero is given superhuman abilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Immortals and Vampires and Ghosts, Oh My!: Byronic Heroes in Popular Culture] Reference

In fact, too much of late-twentieth-century cosmology was still not quite believable, more theory than observation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Grand and Bold Thing] Reference

No longer a techne rhetorike, this new, late-twentieth-century art of rhetoric thematizes its technicity as "rigor".    From Wordnik.com.  [Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man] Reference

The great accomplishment of late-twentieth-century cosmology was putting together a complete inventory of the universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Matter Exists] Reference

Several late-twentieth-century scholars argued that Plato's account of the death of Socrates cannot possibly be accurate.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Death of Socrates'] Reference

In a landmark 1995 paper, he and coworker Andrew Warner examined the late-twentieth-century experience with trade barriers.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Bernstein: Is the GOP Really the Party of Free Trade?] Reference

I would want, first, health insurance: the ability to go to the doctor and be treated with late-twentieth-century medicines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Speculist: July 2004 Archives] Reference

They have their own very clear ideas about what the results of their late-twentieth-century transformations are "meant to be".    From Wordnik.com.  [The optimists of Davos past now face a world whose script has gone awry | Timothy Garton Ash] Reference

If anything, the tendency in late-twentieth-century America was in exactly the opposite direction — toward moral laissez-faire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fatwa City] Reference

A late-twentieth-century history of black people in D.C. accumulates in these haunting tales about people who can't escape their circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heels.] Reference

Last January an Idaho trial court rejected Corliss 'claim, thus joining the other late-twentieth-century courts that have declined to apply the rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slow Death of Treasure Trove] Reference

He existed in prison, physically apart, but in a late-twentieth-century America that allowed him to sustain a web of activities in the outside world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lawyers and Lizard-Heads] Reference

Above all, from the point of view of a late-twentieth-century reader, he has too little to say about the material and social setting of cultural life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to Burckhardt] Reference

The point Stampp does make that is always worth making is to admonish us against judging the mid-nineteenth century by late-twentieth-century standards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cult of the Lost Cause] Reference

In actual point of fact, the world has never seen a complete laissez-faire system, though early American and late-twentieth-century Hong Kong came close.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabett Run] Reference

We have seen its usefulness already for admirers of the French Revolution, and for late-twentieth-century Communists in retrospectively coping with the Stalin era.    From Wordnik.com.  [ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM] Reference

Before anyone guessed that the late-twentieth-century stock market boom was a bubble in the making, the Tribune Company had bought famous old newspapers hither and yon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goodbye to Newspapers?] Reference

In the fragmented and seemingly directionless world of late-twentieth-century architecture, no concept beguiles the popular imagination more than that of 'organic' design.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Mack] Reference

From late-twentieth-century London, to post-war Singapore, to Depression-era New York, The Happy World untangles Matty mistakes and traumas to rediscover a life untainted.    From Wordnik.com.  [01/01/2006 - 01/08/2006] Reference

By all accounts, British Steel is a cornerstone of late-twentieth-century hard rock, even if a few of the songs manage to be really heavy and really lame at the same time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fargo Rock City] Reference

The creation of the Internet and the PC simultaneously made every inbox a telegram portal of a late-twentieth-century sort; it finally brought about the dream of obliterating distance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tyranny of E-mail] Reference

Ismail Kadare's novel, his most recent to appear in English, tells the story of the fall of the heir to the throne in the unforgiving Communist dictatorship of late-twentieth-century Albania.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rumors of a Coup] Reference

Rodolphe is supposed to be a creep, but surely he never spoke the French equivalent of late-twentieth-century American slang: And anyway there's all those problems, all that expense, as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Way, Madame Bovary] Reference

Sparkey’s second claimthat attention to racism is a late-twentieth-century concern, and that nobody “back then” really attended much to racial matters when they were formulating policyis also false.    From Wordnik.com.  [IsThatLegal?] Reference

Ulrich estimates that the maternal mortality rate experienced by Martha Ballard's patients was 5 per 1,000 births, compared with the late-twentieth-century rate in the United States of 1 per 10,000 births.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference

Flaherty-raised in Boston, for the last twenty years one of the King's men in a score of late-twentieth-century New Yorks-had put together his posse as fast as he could, in a nerve-roasting agony of fear and fury.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dark Tower]

He finds it "a judicious and comprehensive biography of Helms, a man who 'left a permanent stamp on late-twentieth-century American public life,'" noting that "the book is, if anything, overly kind to its subject.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

Reconstructions of millennial temperatures show a wide range of variability, raising questions about the reliability of currently available reconstruction techniques and the uniqueness of late-twentieth-century warming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unthreaded #3 « Climate Audit] Reference

Either way, the painting is some kind of late-twentieth-century masterpiece.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"This archive becomes fundamental in understanding the changes in late-twentieth-century art," Hanhardt said.    From Wordnik.com.  [artforum.com] Reference

Perhaps the most influential work in conservatism's late-twentieth-century ascent was Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative, published in 1960.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

Thirty years on, the return of the Ayatollah Khomeini and the ensuing Iranian Revolution looms as perhaps the central event of the late-twentieth-century world.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

I hope that this is so, but I don’t have sufficient confidence in the wisdom of late-twentieth-century Western governments simply to assume that this is the case.    From Wordnik.com.  [ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM] Reference