modernity

Technological pessimists speak as if modernity itself were a mistake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

An inside student might say that prisons in eastern Oregon used to be mental institutions and Army barracks; an outside student might speak about modernity and the need for discipline and control under capitalism.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

Fashion bible Vogue seemed to agree, saying "Moore has never before so mastered this glamorous aesthetic that goes from timeless sophistication to daring modernity".

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

Groups within it – including pickup artists, men’s rights groups and “involuntary celibate” or “incel” communities – portray themselves as victims of modernity.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026

What Voltaire was to France, Franklin was to America, the symbol of mankind’s triumphal arrival at modernity.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

In it, he seemed to shove fiction abruptly in the direction of the 21st century, describing humans as they muddled through overwhelming modernities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

Do you find that they are incorporating a lot of modern techniques or modernities in general into the etiquette rules now?

From Slate ● May 2, 2017

The combination was surprisingly good, with the stark modernities of “Limen” set against the lush romanticism of “Marguerite” and the vaguely mystical rites of “Requiem.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2011

The orchestra sometimes provided halfhearted modernities, medieval primitivisms.

From Time Magazine Archive

That town has most of its more glaring modernities decently hidden, and the pier and a few spires and chimneys seem to blend into the all-pervading golden brown of the Hampshire coast.

From Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter by Holmes, Edric