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Edouard Drumont's book Jewish France signaled the rise of modern anti-Semitism, attacking Jews for capitalism, radicalism, and other “modern problems.. [1884-85]

This middle zone of power and mastery is the path of the modern transcendentalist, and the one who walks it and lives in unification with its laws is the _modern transcendentalist_ of the new civilization.. [Freedom Talks No. II]

Owing to the very fact that nothing is more modern than this thorough morbidness, this dilatoriness and excessive irritability of the nervous machinery, Wagner is the _modern artist par excellence_, the Cagliostro of modernity.. [The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.]

In the modern world, England and America are the most conspicuous for enlightened views of freedom, and bold vindication of the equal rights of man; yet in these two countries slave laws have been framed as bad as they were in Pagan, iron-hearted Rome; and the customs are in some respects more oppressive; -- _modern_ slavery unquestionably wears its very worst aspect in the Colonies of England and the United. [An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans]

II. vii.156 (272,3) [Full of wise saws and modern instances] I am in doubt whether _modern_ is in this place used for absurd; the meaning seems to be, that the justice is full of _old_ sayings and _late_ examples.. [Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies]

IV. iii.170 (508,9) A modern ecstacy] I believe _modern_ is only. [Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies]

III. ii.120 (85,1) Which modern lamentation might have mov'd] This line is left out of the later editions, I suppose because the editors did not remember that Shakespeare uses _modern_ for _common_, or _slight_: I believe it was in his time confounded in colloquial language with. [Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies]

Abraham, who made a series of videos lambasting the games in favour of Battlefield 3, argued that he was entitled to use the domain as he pleased because the term "modern warfare" is "generic".. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph]

Abraham, who made a series of videos lambasting the games in favour of Battlefield 3, argued that he was entitled to use the domain as he pleased because the term "modern warfare" is "generic".. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph]

It was the use of the term "modern" as a preface to philanthropy that truly resonated with me given the fact that in a room full of upper management and c-level suite business-gladiators, if you will, Mr. Simmons stood out as one of few Black men.. [Pedro L. Rodriguez: Russell Simmons: Face of Modern American Business?]

It was the use of the term "modern" as a preface to philanthropy that truly resonated with me given the fact that in a room full of upper management and c-level suite business-gladiators, if you will, Mr. Simmons stood out as one of few Black men.. [Pedro L. Rodriguez: Russell Simmons: Face of Modern American Business?]

According to The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: the word modern was first recorded in 1585 in the sense 'of present or recent times'.. [Pankaj Jain, Ph.D.: Hinduism And Modernity]

According to The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: the word modern was first recorded in 1585 in the sense 'of present or recent times'.. [Pankaj Jain, Ph.D.: Hinduism And Modernity]

The term modern (or new) renewables is used to distinguish between traditional renewables used directly with low conversion technology and renewables using capital-intensive high-tech energy conversion such as solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, or ocean energy to produce state-of-the-art fuels and energy services.. [Chapter 12]

All scientific and social phenomena -- all that we include under the term modern progress -- command his most intense and absorbed attention.. [Essays on Scandinavian Literature]

It's easy to confuse the concepts of modern and Modernism - one would think the word modern means "this minute.". [NPR Topics: News]