6 sentences with 'contemporaries'
Example sentences and phrases with the word contemporaries and other words derived from it.
• « Socrates never wrote anything down; like most of his contemporaries, he believed that writing destroyed memory and undermined meaning, preferring spoken discourse and memorisation. »
• « In The Birth of Venus, Botticelli pushed the boundaries of Renaissance art (and what was culturally acceptable to his contemporaries) by glorifying not only the beauty of the human body, but openly celebrating the sexuality of Venus. »
• « Despite the gender biases of most of her scientific contemporaries, Châtelet was accepted as an equal member of the "republic of science". In Châtelet the link between the legacy of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment is clearer: while her companion (and lover) Voltaire was very interested in science and engaged in modest efforts in his own experiments, Châtelet was a physicist and mathematician in her own right. »
• « One of the great historians of the time, Eric Hobsbawm, noted in his The Age of Empire that Europe had never seen so many states ruled by "emperors" as in the early 20th century: the Empress of the British Empire, the Kaiser of the German Reich, the Kaiser of the Austrian Reich and the Tsar of the Russian Empire were not only contemporaries, but were all related by dynastic marriages. »
• « Darwin's arguments surprised most of his contemporaries. His theory directly contradicted the biblical account of the natural world, in which God's creation is fundamentally static. »
• « In reality, the USSR was in a perpetual state of economic stagnation, with its citizens enjoying dramatically lower living standards than their contemporaries in the West and the workers working harder and for fewer benefits than many in the West. »