up-to-dateness
- n the property of belonging to the present time
- Paul's own up-to-dateness was not in question for a moment with the crowd of 30,000 who assembled in the cathedral (and wine) town of Orvieto, 75 miles north of Rome.
- In their variously fashionable ways, all have been trapped within "the bubble of compulsive up-to-dateness.
- This up-to-dateness is itself a kind of spring-wound relic: the breezy, bet-on-the-future confidence of a Midwestern traveling salesman from a half-century ago.