Asmahan, bi-national or, in contemporary parlance, trans-national by then, had become "a sophisticated foreigner to the young men in the Jabal Druze."
Still seems all rather trite playful stuff but accepting the Elizabethan for what they were - airheads in contemporary parlance - the switches and marshallings and 'about-turns!'
In 1714, Veracini went to London and played instrumental pieces ("symphonies" in contemporary parlance) between the acts of operas at the Queen's Theatre.
We're told that she "cooks and sews and does all those things women do," but in contemporary parlance, Madge would be diagnosed as depressed.
In contemporary Greek military parlance, a "lochos" is a company, but the unit's full strength was much closer to that of a regular infantry regiment.
The class of frigates built to the lines of the Leda were in contemporary parlance called the 'Repeat Leda class'.
In contemporary parlance Maran is often attributed to Rabbis who serve as founding heads of a particular ideological/cultural movement.
To put the Riemann-Silberstein vector in contemporary parlance, a transition is made:
Murray says he thinks Baylos didn't because he was "scared to die" (to bomb, in contemporary parlance).
Yes, of course, she risks, in contemporary parlance, overexposure.