Contemporary sources describe John as a rather short but well-built man, with reddish blonde hair and beard and blue eyes who was attractive to women.

* In 1967 the award was combined with the equivalent award for women as the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary ( R & R ) Solo Vocal Performance – Male or Female

Contemporary dance forms such as Bharatanatyam have recent origins but are based older temple dance forms known as Catir Kacceri as practiced by courtesans and a class of women known as Devadasis

Contemporary hair snoods for Jewish women come in a wide range of colors and designs.

Contemporary feminist scholars often focus on the play's many instances of women vulnerable to rape, and the tragic results of Angellica's being jilted by Willmore.

Contemporary Kantha is applied to a wider range of garments such as sarees, dupatta, shirts for men and women, bedding and other furnishing fabrics, mostly using cotton and silk.

Contemporary Mexican journalists and foreigners who knew these women in the first half of the nineteenth century call attention to the way in which the fashion of peasant women showed off their feminine forms, or were an appropriate feature of all the graces that were attributed to these women.

Besides being one of the first textbooks to discuss serialism, Twentieth Century Music also mentioned numerous women composers in contrast to other contemporary music textbooks such as Paul Rosenfeld's Musical Portraits, An Hour with American Music and John Tasker Howard's Our Contemporary Composers, which only briefly mentioned women composers, if they were mentioned at all.

* Clatterbaugh, Kenneth, 1990, Contemporary perspectives on masculinity: men, women, and politics in modern society, Colorado & Oxford: Westview Press

Contemporary prints by artists like Thomas Rowlandson depict women bathing in the nude.

Contemporary Christian theologians have provided explanations for " born from above " being a more accurate translation of the original Greek word transliterated anōthen.

Contemporary systems of categories have been proposed by John G. Bennett ( The Dramatic Universe, 4 vols., 1956-65 ), Wilfrid Sellars ( 1974 ), Reinhardt Grossmann ( 1983, 1992 ), Johansson ( 1989 ), Hoffman and Rosenkrantz ( 1994 ), Roderick Chisholm ( 1996 ), Barry Smith ( ontologist ) ( 2003 ), and Jonathan Lowe ( 2006 ).

Contemporary filmmakers such as Woody Allen, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Pedro Almodovar, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Emir Kusturica, David Lynch, Girish Kasaravalli, David Cronenberg, Martin Scorsese, and Juraj Jakubisko have cited Fellini's influence on their work.

Contemporary practitioners, accordingly, have varied and often conflicting practices.

Biographer Philip Heselton suggested that through the nudist scene Gardner may have also met Dion Byngham ( 1896 – 1990 ), a senior member of the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry who propounded a Contemporary Pagan religion known as Dionysianism.

Contemporary harmonicists Howard Levy, Jason Ricci, Carlos del Junco and the late Chris " Buddha " Michalek have pushed the envelope of the instrument.

Contemporary legal positivists have long abandoned this view, and have criticised its oversimplification, H. L. A. Hart particularly.

Contemporary chroniclers argued that John had fallen deeply in love with Isabella, and John may have been motivated by desire for an apparently beautiful, if rather young, girl.

Present-day translations have " morning star " ( New International Version, New Century Version, New American Standard Bible, Good News Translation, Holman Christian Standard Bible, Contemporary English Version, Common English Bible, Complete Jewish Bible ), " daystar " ( New Jerusalem Bible, English Standard Version, The Message ), " shining one " ( New Life Version ) or " shining star " ( New Living Translation ).

Contemporary paganism has therefore been prone to fakelore, especially in recent years as information and misinformation alike have been spread on the Internet and in print media.

Contemporary artists have been greatly influenced by René Magritte's stimulating examination of the fickleness of images.

Contemporary debates have centered on issues such as secularization, civil religion, and the cohesiveness of religion in the context of globalization and multiculturalism.

Contemporary chroniclers suggested that Henry argued that it would be in Stephen's own best interests to release the Empress and concentrate instead on attacking Robert, and Stephen may have seen Robert, not the Empress, as his main opponent at this point in the conflict.

Contemporary ideas from systems theory have grown with diversified areas, exemplified by the work of biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy, linguist Béla H. Bánáthy, ecological systems with Howard T. Odum, Eugene Odum and Fritjof Capra, organizational theory and management with individuals such as Peter Senge, interdisciplinary study with areas like Human Resource Development from the work of Richard A. Swanson, and insights from educators such as Debora Hammond and Alfonso Montuori.

Contemporary social theorists associated with the Frankfurt School have remained largely critical of Heidegger's works and influence.

According to the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, a political prisoner is ‘ someone who is in prison because they have opposed or criticized the government of their own country ’.

Contemporary tracts and accounts such as that of Francesco Guicciardini have been found to allude to active same-sex relations – alleging Count Ludovico Rangone and Galeotto Malatesta among his lovers.

" Contemporary directors like Sidney Lumet, a former student, have intentionally used actors such as Al Pacino, a former student skilled in " Method ".

Therefore the genre field and some categories have been renamed as Gospel / Contemporary Christian Music.

Contemporary crayons are purported to have originated in Europe where some of the first cylinder shaped crayons were made with charcoal and oil.

Contemporary VLIWs typically have four to eight main functional units.

Contemporary Greek literature is represented by many writers, poets and novelists: Dionysios Solomos, Andreas Kalvos, Angelos Sikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, Constantine P. Cavafy, Demetrius Vikelas, while George Seferis and Odysseas Elytis have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Contemporary composers have utilized the unique sound of the marimba more and more in recent years.

Contemporary designs of this style also have a pressure-activated interlock mechanism that prevents the lid from being removed while the cooker is pressurized.

Contemporary design practice has been extended to the modern computer, for example in the use of WYSIWYG user interfaces, often referred to as interactive design, or multimedia design.

Contemporary Christian worship, as often found in Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism, may include the use of contemporary worship music played with electric guitars and the drum kit, sharing many elements with rock music.

Contemporary work in the foundations of mathematics often focuses on establishing which parts of mathematics can be formalized in particular formal systems ( as in reverse mathematics ) rather than trying to find theories in which all of mathematics can be developed.

Contemporary ethical debate is often described as " secular ", with the work of Derek Parfit and Peter Singer, and even the whole field of contemporary bioethics, having been described or self-described as explicitly secular or non-religious.

Contemporary playwrights in the United States often do not reach the same level of fame or cultural importance as some did in the past.

Contemporary sidewalks are most often made of concrete in the United States and Canada, while tarmac, asphalt, brick, stone, slab and ( increasingly ) rubber are more common in Europe.

Contemporary amphitheatres often include standing structures, called bandshells, sometimes curved or bowl-shaped, both behind the stage and behind the audience, creating an area which echoes or amplifies sound, making the amphitheatre ideal for musical or theatrical performances.

Contemporary Method acting teachers and schools often synthesize the work of their predecessors into an integrated approach.

Contemporary Chinese art ( 中国当代艺术, Zhongguo Dangdai Yishu ) often referred to as Chinese avant-garde art, continued to develop since the 1980s as an outgrowth of modern art developments post-Cultural Revolution.

Contemporary Australian music ranges across a broad spectrum with trends often concurrent with those of the US, the UK, and similar nations – notably in the Australian rock and Australian country music genres.

Contemporary noise music is often associated with extreme volume and distortion.

Contemporary commentators made ( often disparaging ) comparisons between the techniques of the Federation and those employed in American politics.

Christian rock was often viewed as a marginal part of the nascent Contemporary Christian Music ( CCM ) and contemporary gospel industry in the 1970s and ' 80s, though Christian folk rock artists like Bruce Cockburn and rock fusion artists like Phil Keaggy had some cross-over success.

Contemporary & avant-garde music, where different sounds are sought, will often use friction mallets ( producing squeals & harmonics ), bass bows ( producing long tones and high overtones ), and various striking implements ( wood / plastic / metal ) to produce the desired tones.

Contemporary use can particularly refer to a beginner or new user of computers, often concerning Internet activity, such as online gaming or Linux use.

Contemporary stone tool manufacturers often work stone for experimentation with past techniques or for replication.

Contemporary fantasy is also to be distinguished from horror fiction, which also often has contemporary settings.

Contemporary fantasies often concern places dear to their authors, are full of local color and atmosphere, and attempt to lend a sense of magic to those places, particularly when the subgenre overlaps with mythic fiction.

Religious music often changes to fit the times ; Contemporary Christian music, for example, uses idioms from various secular popular music styles but with religious lyrics.

Contemporary remixes are often produced in a Digital Audio Workstation ( DAW ), which allow producers to reorganize tracks and apply various effects.

Contemporary Jewish rationalism often draws on ideas associated with medieval philosophers such as Maimonides and modern Jewish rationalists such as Hermann Cohen.

Contemporary printmakers often use spraypaint instead of a powder.

Contemporary jian versions are often forged ( shaped with heat and hammer ) and assembled by mostly traditional methods for training of practitioners of Chinese martial arts around the world.