Meanings of many contemporaries in English

Yet, no doubt, this was his crying offence in the opinion of many contemporaries.

Pisander, unlike many contemporaries, was affected by a sensitive conscience.

Doing so, he has outlived many contemporaries.

And, just like the Modern Library list, the Radcliffe list ignored virtually all experimental fiction and many contemporaries.

He wasn't as motivated as he had been. Yet many contemporaries felt that Albert was the more naturally gifted climber.

Chimerical this policy seemed to many contemporaries; chimerical it has seemed to historians, and to us who have passed through the World War.

It seems better to avoid altogether the issue of 'greatness' (other than seeking to understand why so many contemporaries saw 'greatness' in Hitler).

There was one other unforeseen consequence of Watt's steam engine, which many contemporaries missed, but which a perceptive German observer named Karl Marx did not.

Many contemporaries lacked interest in the suffrage question, but eager to engage in philanthropy, had to conform to the Catholic hierarchy's strictures.