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

For too long, Christianity’s response to modernity was dismissed as outdated, restrictive or incapable of addressing a pluralistic society.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 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

Even in modernity, the ages of darkness were not so far behind us.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

Just as we want the newest books and phonographs, the latest conveniences in housing and sanitation, so we want the latest modernities in political, social, and intellectual matters.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman