Sentence examples for a modern imagination from inspiring English sources

The elevator was like a time machine to prewar New York, and the yawning emptiness invited sepia projections from a modern imagination.

Other firms approached Delano & Aldrich's grasp of traditional Anglo-American styles in the service of the New York upper classes, but none seem to have been unconventional enough to mix the classical orders of architecture with a modern imagination in ways that tinkered with ancient precedents to introduce whimsey into million-dollar budgets.

If this fascination was central to modernism, if the modern imagination was never truly embodied in legitimate, literary works, then perhaps literature was already obsolete by 1890 and only got more so as the 20th century advanced.

"Hannibal inspires a Boys Ownn adventure in the modern imagination".

Far from a condition of smiling serenity or unvarying habit, wedlock, in the modern imagination, is supposed to be dynamic, active and interesting.

When the result was announced at a London ceremony last night, she said: "Robert Macfarlane's book offers an exhilarating insight into the hold that mountains have on the modern imagination.

Queen Nefertiti dazzles the modern imagination – but why? Representatives of the ministry of antiquities and a team of international archaeologists "started the first experiment using infrared thermography to map out the temperature of the walls of Tutankhamun's tomb", minister Mamduh al-Damati said in a statement.

GRKM W4430 Greece and the Modern Imagination.

But what, in the modern imagination, did he represent?

Albrecht Dürer's Melencolia I has cut its black lines deep into the modern imagination.

THE TRIUMPH OF PIERROT The Commedia dell'Arte and the Modern Imagination.