"Utterly contemporary and deeply peculiar - a hard combination to beat (or, these days, to find)."

"If I'm killed, there may be no one to reveal the truth," Lazarus says, voicing an utterly contemporary fear.

Oddly enough, that stranger is Ed Harris, who has always seemed an utterly contemporary actor.

"It was a masterpiece of broadcasting, utterly contemporary in style and tone, and the first time an emergency had taken over the air totally."

With its mix of musical traditions, the song seems utterly contemporary and classic at the same time.

What signifier could he use that was at once traditional and utterly contemporary?

Anti-purists all, they are determined to make music that brings structure and improvisation into utterly contemporary alignments.

In retrospect, his stylistic freedom sounds utterly contemporary; it was, to a certain extent, also his undoing.

It is a piece that sounds, with all its different influences, utterly contemporary.

The mysterious ingredient: great good, utterly contemporary young-teen-age humor.