modernity

Further, “lethal injection involves individuals with health care training, giving it a sheen of modernity, technological advancement, even sophistication.”

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026

The Chrysler Building, which was opened in 1930 as a symbol of exuberance and modernity, had faced several years of uncertainty over its ownership.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Today the slow-moving, sausage-shaped crafts called zeppelins might seem hopelessly antiquated, but in the mid-1930s they soared at the pinnacle of technology and modernity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

They fled to modernity — Parton to Nashville, my parents to Southern California — as soon as they could but never forsook their hometowns, helping those who remained and taking their culture with them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

There’s enough chintz in here to kill modernity.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

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

Chateau de Maintenon The existence of this princely residence is an agreeable reminder of the life of luxury of the olden time albeit certain modernities which we to-day think necessities are lacking.

From Royal Palaces and Parks of France by Blanche McManus