Anything in art,music or literature which is very modern or ahead of its time is called avant-garde.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

As Elizabeth Rhodes says, that was a revolutionary message for its time.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

It was one of the great engineering wonders of its time.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

The book uses the racist expressions of its time.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

(SAYING) Several news editorials have said the state could better spend its time healing a crippled economy.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

But after eight years of war, amid rising casualties and wavering American public support, and with huge national security issues at stake, he says the administration needs to take its time and get the decisions right.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Ten years ago at this time, NATO was bombing Serbia to end its violent campaign against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

The United States had sent an astronaut of its own into space for the first time in nineteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

The volcanic eruption was the second time in two years that Iceland has shaken its neighbors to the east.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

The group says this was the first time it gave a documentary crew unrestricted access to its field operations.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

The university is unusual. It not only provides laptop computers to all seven thousand of its full-time students.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

For the first time the W.H.O.raised its alert level from phase four to phase five on April twenty-ninth.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Last year,for the first time, the World Health Organization added snakebites to its list of "neglected tropical diseases."

VOA: special.2010.01.25

The baby will open its mouth twice, the second time with a nice wide mouth, and lean in to grasp the breast.

VOA: special.2010.08.04