modernity
Example Sentences
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She is at once guardian angel and angel of death, watching over hallowed ground while carrying a tool of invasive modernity with her.
"But at his core, he was a genius who was endlessly fascinated by storytelling, whether it was through mythology, modernity or memory," Mr Ahmad adds.
From BBC
Disney, with stunning acoustics, proved both a place of modernity for a new millennium and one of the world’s most acoustically engaging venues.
From Los Angeles Times
"I think he's walked the line, which is a very narrow line between modernity and kind of absurdity extremely well," he says of Prince William.
From BBC
“They illustrate jazz modernity as a fusion of time, people, and place,” Mr. Gennari says of these images, perhaps inadvertently making the case for a glossy, large-format edition of his book.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.