The Palace represented a huge technological advance in building, a talismanic edifice which defined modernity in architecture for a century or more. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
A shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Benjamin modernity itself becomes phantasmagorical. From Wordnik.com. [Article Abstracts] Reference
Sometimes it seems that the aim of modernity is to flush the romance out of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother Load] Reference
I returned to the source and discovered that modernity is not outside but within us. From Wordnik.com. [Octavio Paz - Nobel Lecture] Reference
And this critique of modernity is not confined to the contemporary non-Western world. From Wordnik.com. [Byron and Romantic Occidentalism] Reference
The insistently political nature of our critical modernity is itself a sign of this law. From Wordnik.com. [Aesthetic Violence and the Legitimacy of Reading Romanticism] Reference
I understand this impasse in modernity as among the most compelling features of Romanticism. From Wordnik.com. [Romantic Interiority and Cultural Objects] Reference
In breaking open the floor of the museum, Salcedo is exposing a fracture in modernity itself. From Wordnik.com. [October 2007] Reference
My search was not fanciful, even though the idea of modernity is a mirage, a bundle of reflections. From Wordnik.com. [Octavio Paz - Nobel Lecture] Reference
If, basically, the essence of modernity is an ever-vigilant patrolling of the borders between spheres. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Institutions and Civil Society, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The paper book, the tool that built modernity, is to be phased out in favor of fractured, unfixed information. From Wordnik.com. [2009 January 29 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference
The idea of modernity is a by-product of our conception of history as a unique and linear process of succession. From Wordnik.com. [Octavio Paz - Nobel Lecture] Reference
The nation in modernity no longer needs battle to clear our pathways for collective meaning and national transcendence. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Vlahos: Chilean Transcendence] Reference
What, in a later, faster, and technologically more complex modernity, is Kantian-romantic difficulty to be supplemented with?. From Wordnik.com. [Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics] Reference
In some ways, liberalism is the sort of automatic by-product of all the forces we call modernity -- industrialization, urbanization, cosmopolitanism. From Wordnik.com. [Julian Brookes: Alan Wolfe on Terrorism and Globalization] Reference
Against this model, we can perhaps array a different genealogical project in modernity, akin to that indicated at the end of Toni Morrison's Beloved. From Wordnik.com. [Response to Thomas Pfau] Reference
I admire her modernity, which is fragile and strong at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [My Fashion Life] Reference
One could say it is the idea of modernity itself, the original vision thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Heritage Foundation Papers] Reference
It becomes a sacred ritual by which we recreate the mythic within modernity. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
It is also, in some sense critical about the general understanding of modernity, that is modern development, science and reason. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
Both of these things being essential for the larger concept called modernity does not necessarily mean that they themselves are linked. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
And what of this Western 'modernity' that you hold so dear. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The same 'modernity' that saw 5 million Polish deaths in WW2?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
One might wonder, however, why "modernity" needs to be defined so narrowly. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on 'Introduction'] Reference
That is to say modernity, concurrent, of the era, fitting in to the period…. From Wordnik.com. [I Am A Contemporaneous Man] Reference
Would that be the same 'modernity' that sent 6 million of Jews to their slaughter?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
This background helps to explain Blond's denigration of 'modernity' and 'liberalism'. From Wordnik.com. [Blond's anti-liberalism] Reference
They manifest pride in the "modernity" of their army: it proves their country is not "backward". From Wordnik.com. [Bread and circuses] Reference
Yes, that's a great film, humorously making us think about the real effects of all that "modernity". From Wordnik.com. [playtime] Reference
One of the challenges that exists today is how we approach the question of "modernity" in the context of our tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Continuity, Beauty and Dignity within the Liturgical Arts and their Development] Reference
He is clear that the influence of "modernity," as some have theorized, is hardly an adequate explanation for the Holocaust. From Wordnik.com. [Caught between two killers] Reference
The same 'modernity' which sees a baby battered to death over a 5 month period while the States 'mechanisms turn a blind eye?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere "modernity" cannot kill. From Wordnik.com. [The Deadlocked City] Reference
Clark reflects on the meaning of "modernity" in his spectacular book, Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism. From Wordnik.com. [Modernism and social life] Reference
First, there's his positive depiction of the traditional situation, which he refers to as "modernity," as in "I am a modernist.". From Wordnik.com. [David Weinberger: Andrew Keen's Best Case] Reference
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