modernity

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

Novelists throughout the 1920s tended to cast modernity as the villain, most notably in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” where a reckless-driving incident brings death and deception.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 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

But he couldn’t resist a little modernity here and there; he sped around his lake in gleaming speedboats.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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 Edman, Irwin