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The art gallery is holding two concurrent exhibitions, one featuring contemporary artists, the other featuring artists of the 1920s.

Leonardo DiCaprio starred in a contemporary version of Romeo and Juliet.

The art gallery is showing an excellent exhibit of paintings by contemporary artists.

Much of the contemporary music I hear nowadays just sounds like noise to me.

I much prefer the music of the 1970s.

The performance will include a selection of pieces by both classical and contemporary composers.

Over 30% of the contemporary world's people identify themselves as either Muslims or Hindus.

The film featured actors playing characters in an ancient Greek play, but who were dressed, and who spoke in a contemporary manner.

Personally, I find that contemporary cinema, though certainly more advanced in terms of technology, nonetheless lacks some of the emotional depth of films of the 1940s.

Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath once remarked, "I don't think that modesty is the oustanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?" Ellen Terry once observed, "What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it, dull to the contemporary who reads it, invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it!" Arthur Koestler once suggested that a writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time, and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

My father refuses to listen to contemporary music, if it wasn't recorded before 1960, he thinks it's trash.

Discussion question: What is your opinion of contemporary art and music, as opposed to classical? Find someone who dislikes contemporary music.

contend We read excerpts of different contemporary novels in class, and some of them were really interesting.

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