Adjective : modern city life. ,modern viewpoints. ,modern European history. From Dictionary.com.
He seeks this thing which we may call modernness, for no better word to express the idea presents itself. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4] Reference
This is an anomalous feature and suggests modernness. From Wordnik.com. [The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198] Reference
Characters like Martha add a modernness that the old series lacked. From Wordnik.com. [The Tripods by John Christopher] Reference
Human civilization has grown to its present day modernness thanks to scientific advances. From Wordnik.com. [Review: _Something Magic This Way Comes_ edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Sarah A. Hoyt] Reference
July 20, 2006, 4: 44 am hotels san diego says: hotels sandiego reactivate wrongly! handsomest: modernness? unlawfully enqueued. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » John Lott and the National Research Council’s Report.–] Reference
Where the teaching is at its best in both the elementary and high schools of Cleveland, the work exhibits balanced understanding and complete modernness. From Wordnik.com. [What the Schools Teach and Might Teach] Reference
It consists of 285,000 men, and an idea of its modernness may be gathered from the fact that an important part of its organisation is its training schools and colleges. From Wordnik.com. [Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)] Reference
And what makes this exclusiveness the more repulsive is its modernness. From Wordnik.com. [The Sympathy of Religions] Reference
The modernness of all good books seems to give me an existence as wide as man. From Wordnik.com. [Essays — Second Series] Reference
I am struck, in reading him, with the extreme modernness of his style and spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
Two other ideas presented by this leader show his modernness and his originality. From Wordnik.com. [Unitarianism in America] Reference
And with Cicero we are charmed by the modernness, by the tone of to-day, which his language takes. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Cicero Volume One] Reference
But the first act was not half over before the extreme modernness of the play forced itself upon you. From Wordnik.com. [Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911] Reference
And yet the modernness on which Norfolk so evidently prides herself is not something to be lightly valued. From Wordnik.com. [American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'] Reference
There is an irresistible charm in the freshness, the vividness, the extreme modernness of this little tale. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Scandinavian Literature] Reference
It was strange, the contrast between the squalid modernness of the scene, with its incongruous sights and sounds, the. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
It was the modernness of the Alexandrian authors, and perhaps their Egyptian flavour, which had justly attracted him. From Wordnik.com. [Some Diversions of a Man of Letters] Reference
He was a passionate lover of mountains, with that modern spirit which finds in them man's best refuge from modernness. From Wordnik.com. [The Case of Richard Meynell] Reference
We were all of us raised as moderns, however, and even as I write these words, my own modernness rises up to make me blush. From Wordnik.com. [Anchor Rising] Reference
The dramatic force, the tender passionate insight, the fearless modernness with which the story was told, made it almost unbearable. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
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Moreover, she resents modernness of every kind, including the steam-engine, the electric telegraph, the continent of North America, and myself. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Patoff] Reference
In spite of her modernness, and the complexity of many of her motives, there was certain inherited simplicities of nature at the bottom of her. From Wordnik.com. [Marcella] Reference
The characteristic feature of both figures is the modernness of their lines, which are as different as possible from those of the statues of classic. From Wordnik.com. [The Sea-Kings of Crete] Reference
But his extreme modernness -- "Life is a cliché -- I would find a gesture of my own" -- is, in the case of so lively a songster, an evidence of vitality. From Wordnik.com. [Some Diversions of a Man of Letters] Reference
There was a modernness for every ancient painter; most of the beautiful portraits which remain to us from earlier times are dressed in the costumes of their times. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4] Reference
Of late it has, of course, acquired a certain modernness of aspect; it has planted acacia trees in its little piazza, and it has a gorgeously arrayed municipal band. From Wordnik.com. [Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2)] Reference
As Peter had noted, you never knew where to "have" Gabriel Nash; a truth exemplified in his unexpected delight at the prospect of Miriam's drawing forth the modernness of the age. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Muse] Reference
These houses opposite, compared with Gable Inn, are of a mushroom modernness, and yet are old enough (having begun with. From Wordnik.com. [Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
The modernness of the Universal. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2] Reference
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