What was unremarkable to contemporaries, in other words, is precisely what seems most puzzling in retrospect.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Wars end] Reference

Obviously, the thing that will set the R-Zero apart from its sports car contemporaries is the fact that it will be powered by an electric engine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audi to Make Electric Sports Car | Impact Lab] Reference

THE extraordinary bodily, as well as mental superiority which Wallace and Bruce possessed over their contemporaries, is thus recorded by Hector Boetius: –.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference

His popularity among his contemporaries was a growing process.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century] Reference

What distinguishes Abramowitsch from his contemporaries is his style.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)] Reference

This appreciation of his contemporaries was a strong feature of his character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors and Friends] Reference

Most of my contemporaries were the first of their families to go to Universities.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's gone wrong with comprehensives?] Reference

To be neglected by his contemporaries was the penalty which he paid for surpassing them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2] Reference

Dying with them and their contemporaries is a love of the style of music Kaye championed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times Today's News] Reference

More apparent to his contemporaries were the immediate benefits of his strong administration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The University of Michigan] Reference

My contemporaries were the Modest Mouse guys; I didn't really follow what MTV was doing at the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [blogTO] Reference

Yet it was in these last two capacities that his reputation among his contemporaries was the most marked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great German Composers]

Depend upon it, our contemporaries are our best judges, and his contemporaries decided that Homer was nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ixion In Heaven] Reference

The good Zola, vigorous, dull and perspiring, dubbed his contemporaries, the French naturalistic novelists, "Giants.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth and Egolatry] Reference

But it is highly improbable that to Gracchus or to any of his contemporaries was the true nature of the prophecy revealed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate] Reference

While his contemporaries were advocating art with a message, Tamayo focused on plastic forms integrated with colors and textures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rufino Tamayo] Reference

With the paranormal world I feel like authors are a bit edgier and can have more aggressive/modern women than I find in contemporaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paranormal Romances] Reference

"contemporaries" - both friends and adversaries - wanted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gates of Vienna] Reference

But not for the bloggers who saw themselves as her "contemporaries".    From Wordnik.com.  [status anxiety] Reference

Sallee explained many of his "contemporaries" find society intimidating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles] Reference

Doroth, which we have rendered "contemporaries," is generally a very expressive term here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

In comparison to contemporaries which is what a percentile scoring implies - comparative, rather than absolute - I was now rated higher.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

Many of her contemporaries don't need to be persuaded.    From Wordnik.com.  [JAPAN: Bucking the Baby Bust] Reference

Chaplin and Marion were contemporaries in the small community of early Hollywood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlie’s Company] Reference

Even his own contemporaries found it easier to describe Washington than to explain him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Most Human Of Heroes] Reference

Only John Kennedy among my contemporaries had comparable gifts of intelligence and charm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kay We Loved] Reference

The only authors not mentioned in the same sentence are his contemporaries, and this must please him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Lion In The Desert] Reference

But while Kendrick may eschew the high-church posing of some of his contemporaries, his ballast always is spirituality.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bodacious New Voice From Jazz's Far Side] Reference

Mitchum still affords us a workable template of masculinity, a way of being human, that his cinematic contemporaries do not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arts Extra:Being Robert Mitchum] Reference

Many of Kenward's elders, and some of his contemporaries, are appalled by what they see as a pointless and tasteless invitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giving O.J. A Platform] Reference

Proof, says Sidney biographer Margaret Hannay, "would require things like letters from contemporaries praising 'Mary Sidney's Hamlet'.".    From Wordnik.com.  [WAS THE BARD A WOMAN?] Reference

(Never mind that one of Churchill's contemporaries noted dryly that Churchill devoted years of his life to preparing impromptu remarks.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Conventional Journalism] Reference

Her contemporaries were uneasy about her morally ambiguous, fractured characters and the seedy world she dwelt in, as well as wrote about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searching For A Home] Reference

Like many of their avant-garde contemporaries, Herzog & de Meuron consider themselves conceptual architects, whose work is rooted in ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walker On The Wild Side] Reference