41.   Still, given the relative unimportance of manners and moral education in contemporary society, one would expect that many of the film and television adaptations would falter.

42.   The Falun Gong members have become morally rigid and contemptuous of contemporary society and of non-believers.

43.   The issue of abortion is one of the most contentious and controversial in contemporary American society.

44.   These theologians were convinced that the church had enfeebled its own ability to speak to contemporary society.

45.   This cartoonish approach to contemporary society and its problems is silly in itself, but it also mistranslates ideas of sensuality and social dissolution from another era.

46.   This scandal also illuminates the struggles of balancing and blending traditional values and lifestyles while living in two contemporary societies.

47.   This struggle is a conflict that is as pertinent in contemporary society as it was in ancient times.

48.   Two men and two women exploring the difficulties of establishing and maintaining relationships in contemporary society.

49.   With the country swept up in a yearlong orgy of self-congratulation, Mr. Steinberg burst forth with some of his most wickedly on-target commentary about contemporary society.

50.   According to Francis Fukuyama, Japan has the greatest degree of spontaneous sociability among contemporary societies.