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Given contemporary views toward witch hunts and inquisitions in general, this is not only a brilliant twist but actually quite realistic given the context.
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It's one of several older songs given a contemporary flavor on the album.
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He has insisted that discrepancies between the account of the killings in Soviet archives and the account given by a contemporary investigator, Nikolai Sokolov, should be reconciled.
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So it must have given Gabriel a contemporary appeal to viewers at that time, and the fabric is dominated by an enormous dianthus flower, said to be the flower of God.
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The contemporary combat soldier seems to be given a new electronic gadget or gizmo to carry into combat after every meal.
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And given how badly some of their parents behaved, that may be what contemporary teenage rebellion looks like.
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And, finally, Don Giovanni, which Kinmonth has re-situated in 18th-century Venice, home to Casanova and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, whose roots in Venetian street theatre would have given the opera's original productions an abrasive topical edge as recognizable to contemporary audiences as Shakespeare's words were to the crowds at the Globe.
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The prize is given to a film-maker who has left an "original mark" on contemporary cinema.
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Even the skeletonized movement with 648 components has been given a modern touch by pairing old-world finishing techniques, including beveling, with contemporary treatments such as sandblasting.
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In his view, the purpose of the contemporary monument is antiheroic: to debunk, diminish and ensure that equal time is given to the subjects' more mundane qualities.
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