contemporaneousness
Example Sentences
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Smith is trying to see “how closely to contemporaneousness a finished book might be able to be in the world,” as she told one interviewer.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2018
"Satin Island" also owes something to the dot-com-era work novel; an air of catastrophic contemporaneousness hangs over the proceedings as U. is sustained by and trapped in a system he knows cannot possibly last.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2015
Alexander Eliot Venice, Calif. Every artwork created in the past possesses a dual aspect: its contemporaneousness when created and its saturation with time as it survives through the ages.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such a novel deserves to be called quite as truly romance and prose poem, save that Balzac's vraisemblance, his gift for photographic detail and the contemporaneousness of the setting, make it modern.
From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Richard Burton
Concerning earlier periods, he was, aside from the Old Testament, practically without records that could claim contemporaneousness with the events recorded.
From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Frederick Carl Eiselen
