There is an air of contemporaneousness about everything. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
The anomaly had to do with the degree of contemporaneousness of cyclical movements in household and business investment, with the former leading the latter. From Wordnik.com. [Finn E. Kydland - Autobiography] Reference
The thesis that experience of the contemporaneousness of art involves us in more than what we are presently aware of (i.e., the “substance” of underlying and on-going trans-individual linguistic and cultural practices) is supported by the three arguments from analogy concerning the character of play, the festival and the symbol. From Wordnik.com. [Gadamer's Aesthetics] Reference
These tales had both contemporaneousness and vitality. From Wordnik.com. ["The Dime Novel in American Life"] Reference
Her contemporaneousness -- she knows everything that is going on today. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews] Reference
I'll ease his mind by telling him the subject lacks contemporaneousness. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Bohemia] Reference
This explains the curious contemporaneousness of inventions and discoveries. From Wordnik.com. [The Conduct of Life (1860)] Reference
I think, then, that the contemporaneousness of the evidence is sufficiently established. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)] Reference
June, opportunities for appreciating each in turn are not half spoiled by a common contemporaneousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Soul of the Far East] Reference
Later, his various travels to different parts of the world intensified both the rootedness and the contemporaneousness in his work. From Wordnik.com. [Bloggers.Pakistan] Reference
By this means the contemporaneousness of the various strata may be recognized or the parallelism of the several strata established. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
Could she possibly marry this boy whom her sentimental contemporaneousness with his father naturally seemed to relegate to a generation younger than herself?. From Wordnik.com. [The Halo] Reference
Eminent contemporaneousness may see here how much space will be allotted to it in the historical compends and biographical dictionaries of the next generation. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays] Reference
In the present case, however, the proof of the contemporaneousness of Man and the extinct animals does not depend simply on the identity of their mineral condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
Victor, and a man of considerable position; nor was he, as some middle-aged men are, flattered by the implication of contemporaneousness carried by the mode of address. From Wordnik.com. [Comedies of Courtship] Reference
But there is another thought here than that of the contemporaneousness of the two processes, and that is, as it is written on John Wesley's monument in Westminster Abbey, 'God buries the workmen and carries on the work.'. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture] Reference
Only when an influence is exerted, whether immediately or through a third party, from one upon another has society come into existence in place of a mere spatial juxtaposition or temporal contemporaneousness or succession of individuals. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
Holmess grace, humor, contemporaneousness, brought him into favor again and again, and the closing days of a sparkling career were the most zestful for the acknowledged master of new architects of airy rhyme on each side of the Atlantic. From Wordnik.com. [0 Introduction. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference
The religious life is distinguished from all others in two respects; one is the contemporaneousness and co-existence of desire and fruition, and the other is the impossibility that fruition shall ever be so complete and perfect as that desire shall die. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms] Reference
While the little book exhibits many features of a literature in an early stage of development, and many of the characteristics of a youthful production, it is yet the first book of modern times which has such quality as to possess perpetual contemporaneousness. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11] Reference
The same idea is found floating at the same time in many minds, the like necessity pressing upon all, and the process of invention takes place in like manner: hence the contemporaneousness of so many inventions, and the disputes that arise respecting them, as described in a previous chapter. From Wordnik.com. [Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers] Reference
The contents of this series of tombs have been given thus in detail, in order to show that the same grouping of objects occurs over and over again, and that they can therefore be with confidence attributed to the original burials, though if only a single tomb had been examined there would be no proof of the contemporaneousness of any object in it. From Wordnik.com. [El Kab] Reference
By its discovery and description the interesting question was raised as to the contemporaneousness of the Mound-Builder and the mastodon, an interest which is likely to be further enhanced by the more recent bringing to light in Iowa of two pipes carved in the semblance of the same animal, as well as a tablet showing two figures asserted by some archæologists to have been intended for the same animal. From Wordnik.com. [Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166] Reference
If all you want is contemporaneousness, then you’ll have to credit Carter for the explosion of personal computer use in 1977. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » For the Defense] Reference
Gibbon, 10, 60, 107-140; conciseness, 11, 14, 16, 20, 36; source material, 12-16, 20, 22; contemporaneousness, 17-20; necessary qualities, 20; monographs, 22; patriotism, 22; necessity and kinds of originality, 27-29, 75; use of newspapers, 29-32, 83-97; generalizations, 32, 178; use of footnotes, 33; fresh combination of well-known facts, 34; present-day models, 34-43; reflection, 37; enthusiasm, 38. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Essays] Reference
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