modernity
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In the tall, slight and blonde athlete, they had found a noble hero to fight against the tides of modernity in service of some older ideal.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
It’s a spiteful song about technology — against modernity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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
“The Powerful Primate” becomes important when the author departs prehistory for modernity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Fashion and modernity and the rot at the Table’s heart were in hiding, and his great idea was on the move once more.
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
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
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