Leading contemporary composer Philip Glass described Low as " a work of genius " in 1992, when he used it as the basis for his Symphony No. 1 " Low "; subsequently, Glass used Bowie's next album as the basis for his 1996 Symphony No. 4 " Heroes ".

Low budget films such as the comedy / drama Muriel's Wedding, starring Toni Collette, the gently satirical suburban comedy The Castle directed by Rob Sitch ( which cast Eric Bana in his first prominent film role ), and Baz Luhrmann's flamboyant Strictly Ballroom each attained commercial and critical success, and explored quirky characters inhabiting contemporary Australian suburbia-marking something of a departure from the Outback and historical sagas which obtained success in the 1970s and 1980s.

Low fantasies are set in the real world but necessarily not in modern age, in which case they would not be contemporary fantasy.

The contemporary Church of Ireland, despite having a number of High Church ( often described as Anglo-Catholic ) parishes, is generally on the Low Church end of the spectrum of world Anglicanism.

The tradition of still life painting appears to have started and was far more popular in the contemporary Low Countries, today Belgium and Netherlands ( then Flemish and Dutch artists ), than it ever was in southern Europe.

Low ornamental meadows in natural landscaping styles are a contemporary option of a lawn.

The Dozys, like so other contemporary French families, emigrated to the Low Countries after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, but some of the former appear to have settled in the Netherlands as early as 1647.

Yet another variant is contemporary Orangism which seeks the restoration of the Dutch royal family to the Low Countries.

The historical Sprachraum of Low German also included contemporary northern Poland, the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, and a part of southern Lithuania.

Historically, the contemporary Flemish community ( or nation, as some Flemings see it ) grew out of the Catholic southern part of the medieval XVII provinces of the Low Countries.

The fictional Low Earth Orbit ( Mercury ) detonation is very likely a reference to the space interceptor subproject of the Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed " Star Wars ", contemporary with the game's development.

Fantasy writer David Chandler considered this " rise of ' Low Fantasy '" to reflect the contemporary reality of the War on Terror — characterized by " secret deals ", " vicious reprisals " and " sudden acts of terrifying carnage "— much as the horror genre reacted to the Vietnam War a generation earlier.

Old Frankish was the language spoken by the Germanic Franks in the Low Countries and adjacent parts of contemporary France and Germany between the 4th and 8th century.

The Bishopric of Ösel – Wiek (; ; Low German: Bisdom Ösel – Wiek ; contemporary ) was a semi-independent Roman Catholic prince-bishopric in what is now Saare, Hiiu and Lääne counties of Estonia.

Low short hoods from the factory had a pronounced downward slope of the top towards the nose, as did those of the contemporary GP20.

From 1962-67, as a special contributor to the Illustrated Weekly of India ( The Times of India group ), Desani published approximately 170, 000 words of fiction, contemporary comment, criticism, book reviews and — before leaving for the United States, for a year and a half — wrote an unsigned weekly page (" Very High and Very Low ").

: The use of these terms persists in contemporary German to some extent, differing regionally and ideologically.

In addition, those German prepositions that require the genitive in formal language, tend to be used with the dative in contemporary colloquial German ; for example, " because of the weather " is often expressed as " wegen dem Wetter " instead of the formally correct " wegen des Wetters ".

It has been suggested that they emerged as part of a Jewish folklore movement parallel with the contemporary German folklore movement and that they may have been based on Jewish oral tradition.

The location of those Vandals is not stated, but there is a match with his contemporary Ptolemy's east German tribes.

Unconventional as a draughtsman, his treatment of human form is often exaggerated and eccentric ( hence his linkage, in the art historical literature, with European Mannerism ), whilst his ornamental style — profuse, eclectic, and akin to the self-consciously " German " strain of contemporary limewood sculptors — is equally distinctive.

The novel was written in contemporary English for a mass audience, in the same way that mainstream Hollywood movies depicting the Second World War commonly depict German characters talking in English.

The latter, centering on the figure of Niels Ebbesen, a medieval Danish squire considered a national hero for having assassinated an earlier German occupier of Denmark, Count Gerhard III, was a contemporary analogue to World War II-era Denmark.

However, the contemporary Polish ethnographer Adam Chętnik accused the German authorities of abuses and falsifications during the plebiscite.

Dix's work, like that of Grosz — his friend and fellow veteran — was extremely critical of contemporary German society and often dwelled on the act of Lustmord, or sexual murder.

His depictions of legless and disfigured veterans — a common sight on Berlin's streets in the 1920s — unveil the ugly side of war and illustrate their forgotten status within contemporary German society, a concept also developed in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front.

The word " parsley " is a merger of the Old English petersilie ( which is identical to the contemporary German word for parsley: Petersilie ) and the Old French peresil, both derived from Medieval Latin petrosilium, from Latin petroselinum, the latinisation of the Greek πετροσέλινον ( petroselinon ), " rock-parsley ", from πέτρα ( petra ), " rock, stone ", + σέλινον ( selinon ), " parsley ".

An unsympathetic German contemporary source, Dietrich of Nieheim, asserted that he was illiterate ( nesciens scribere etiam male cantabat ).

Tannhäuser, a prominent German Minnesänger and poet, was a contemporary of Pope Urban IV — the pope died in 1264, and the Minnesänger died shortly after 1265.

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was a contemporary German poet of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Likewise, and in contrast to the contemporary German Westerns, few films feature Indians.

This distinction was cleared up by one of the leading contemporary German Humboldt scholars, Jürgen Trabant, in his works in both German and French.

There is no phonological distinction between and in contemporary German.

In the earliest surviving references to it, the language is called ( loshn-ashknez = " language of Ashkenaz ") and ( taytsh, a variant of tiutsch, the contemporary name for the language otherwise spoken in the region of origin, now called Middle High German ).

Apart from the obvious use of Hebrew words for specifically Jewish artifacts, it is very difficult to determine the extent to which the Yiddish spoken in any earlier period differed from the contemporary German.

In contemporary German, the term “ Kapellmeister ” has become less common in favor of the term Dirigent (“ conductor ”).

This was partly in response to an embargo on contemporary German music that saw very few performances of Richard Strauss and Max Reger throughout the war ( although older generations of German composers remained as popular as ever, culminating in a run of Die Walküre, conducted by Thomas Beecham, in 1918 ).

Even so astute a commentator as Harold Clurman of The Nation has said that `` Waiting For Godot '' is `` the concentrate of the contemporary European mood of despair ''.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

The natural and primary aesthetic attitude is to enjoy contemporary art, to despise and dislike the art of the recent past, and wholly to ignore everything else ''.

For here if anywhere in contemporary literature is a major effort to counterbalance Existentialism and restore some of its former lustre to the tarnished image of the species Man, or, as Malraux himself puts it, `` to make men conscious of the grandeur they ignore in themselves ''.

The most obvious characteristic of contemporary American writing, apart from the beat nonsense, is its cosmopolitanism.

The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.

This is not contemporary English.

For the most part, however, the new version is contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds of years ago by the first followers of Christ.

No matter what style your home is, ranch, two-story, Colonial or contemporary, central air conditioning is easily installed.

That he mastered every aspect of his medium according to his own great talents and contemporary judgments, is a good and solid symbol of his people under the tremendous pressures of proclaiming and practising the rigors of a new culture ; ;

But now, under the guidance of the contemporary composer Marc Schlek, Jr., a major revival is under way.

Just yesterday we had met and talked with a living writer, a contemporary of the dead poet, who is known for his ability of manipulating his ideas and his craft more advantageously.

Perhaps -- but extensive discussions with contemporary practitioners, family doctors and gynecologists indicate that this is still an area of enormous ignorance.

In general, friendly contact with a member followed by contact with a clergyman will account for a major share of recruitment by the churches, making it quite evident that the extension of economic integration through co-optation is the principal form of mission in the contemporary church ; ;

Yet in the contemporary context this is precisely what one must not do.

One of the most widespread features of contemporary thought is the almost universal disbelief in the reality of spirit.