The word "Modern" in example sentences
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
