61 adjectives to describe contemporaries

Ruskin's declining years, while hallowed by suffering, were cheered by many tender attentions and unexpected kindnesses, and by the recognition, by many notable public bodies and eminent contemporaries, of his long life of great service and devotion to his kind.

I am dying to know, Miss Eve, if you saw all our distinguished contemporaries when in Europe?That to me, would be one of the greatest delights of travelling!"

"The fact is, Burke is the only one of all the host of brilliant contemporaries who we can rank as a first-rate orator.

Though not a great writer, if we compare him with Browning or Thackeray, he was more closely associated than any of his literary contemporaries with the social and political struggles of the age.

It is thus a significant facta testimony to the depth of his insight and, in the main, the justice of his opinionsthat views of literature which appealed to his own immediate contemporaries, should be found to hold good elsewhere and at a distance of fifty years.

HORTON, MARIE R. Our eternal contemporary.

"The siege?" "Parks telephoned me that your esteemed contemporaries had the place surrounded.

They are entitled to think highly of themselves, in comparison with their most highly gifted contemporaries; and therefore, though their arrogance may be offensive, as it often is, it is seldom or ever utterly ridiculous.

The influence of Charles Austin over me differed from that of the persons I have hitherto mentioned, in being not the influence of a man over a boy, but that of an elder contemporary.

He was a head and shoulders taller than his actual contemporaries.

With the advent of Mme de Villedieu in France and her more celebrated contemporary, Mrs. Behn, in England, literature became a profession whereby women could command a livelihood.

Peel was an exact contemporary, having been born in the same year, 1788.

Since the death of his illustrious contemporary, Canova, Thorwaldsen, born at Copenhagen in 1771-2, has occupied the public eye as head of the modern school.

Critics have expressed their surprise at its inferiority to that of contemporaries inferior to him in genius; but the reason lay in the very circumstance.

Had the work, however, been executed under the same auspices, it would probably, as Sir Walter Scott has suggested, "have been occupied by that personal satire, upon obscure and unworthy contemporaries, to which Pope was but too much addicted.

Our primitive contemporaries.

The most prominent American contemporary of Mr. Irving in imaginative literature, I suppose, was Fenimore Cooper,whose genius raised the American name in Europe more effectively even than Irving's, at least on the Continent.

Somewhere amongst our loci communes of to-day may be found a report of the supposed death, at Hampsteadville (not Bumperville, as a radical contemporary has it,) of a young Northerner named GOODWIN BLOOD, at the hands of a Southern gentleman belonging to the stately old Southern family of PENTORRENS.

We are not quite sure whether our spirited contemporary refers to justice or ju-jitsu; but, either way, it means to give the Huns a knock-out.

OUR COLLOQUIAL CONTEMPORARIES.

This was the method she followed in all her researchcareful, laborious and accurate at all costs, with a fine contempt for her less scientific contemporaries.

On the contrary, it prefers to perpetuate the lying portrait; and no consideration of the bequests of Poe's genius, or of his tragic struggles with adverse conditions, no editorial advocacy, or documentary evidence in his favour, has persuaded posterity to reverse the unduly harsh judgment of his fatuous contemporaries.

Chimney pieces, which in the fourteenth century were merely stone smoke shafts supported by corbels, have been replaced by handsome carved oak erections, ornamenting the hall or room from floor to ceiling, and the English livery cupboard, with its foreign contemporary the buffet, is the forerunner of the sideboard of the future.

In short, to quote the language of a clever contemporary, she must have "the genius of tact to perceive, and the genius of finesse to execute; ease and frankness of manner; a knowledge of the world that nothing can surprise; a calmness of temper that nothing can disturb; and a kindness of disposition that can never be exhausted.

This, you see, is exactly the opposite remedy from that of looking forward into the absolute, which our idealistic contemporaries prescribe.

61 adjectives to describe  contemporaries