We have a modern counterpart today in the rulers of Marxist nations.
Bach formed the Queen's Chamber Band, which inspired a modern counterpart.
Somehow, it is hard to imagine a modern counterpart standing dutifully alone in the fog for 15 minutes.
One need only compare a movie made long before computer graphics existed to a modern counterpart to see how right he is.
They don't wear tights, and in those shoes they can't straighten their knees, but they go onto tiptoe and ripple their arms with the hip-hop currents and isolations that are a modern counterpart to a ballerina's swan-arm undulations.
They were so clearly chosen to represent diverse identities that they could form a modern counterpart to the studiously multiethnic fighting unit familiar from 1950s war novels and films.
But they have a modern counterpart, made hundreds of years later, in the 1950's, when the sculptor Wilfrid Zogbaum created welded steel structures to hold rocks scavenged from the Montauk cliffs.
In its precise and rueful depiction of the private impact of public policy — in particular, the domestic ravages of war — "Little Sister" is an instant classic, a modern counterpart to the 1946 postwar drama "The Best Years of Our Lives".
Two famous 18th-century swindlers -- Sir John Blunt, chairman of the South Sea Trading Company, and John Law, a Scot, who persuaded the French government in 1716 to let him open a bank that could issue paper currency in Louisiana, which France owned -- might be said to have a modern counterpart.
Mozart remains the star, and his music is in sufficient supply to justify the name, although beyond Mozart the purview is broad, from Vivaldi to Webern, with Kaija Saariaho as composer in residence — a modern counterpart to the festival's 18th-century hero.
Explorations of eighteenth-century topics with a modern counterpart, chiefly (a) self-interest, liberal society, and economic incentive; and (b) the passions, sociality, civic virtue, common moral sensibilities, and the formation of taste and opinion.
