Sentence examples for a modern tendency from inspiring English sources

Now their success at the time points up the oddity of a modern tendency to esteem artists less for what they make than for what they do.

Yet when he turns to the present, the tone changes, so that at times he sounds as though he is auditioning for a speech-writing position with David Cameron: we are "more inclined to demand personal rights" these days, and we are "more fearful" than ever before, imbued with a "modern tendency towards risk-aversion and safety at all costs".

There is sometimes a modern tendency to discount instrumentation and infrastructure as not being 'proper science'.

Douglas A. Berman, a law professor at Ohio State University and an expert on sentencing, said the rise in monetary damages might curb "a troublesome modern tendency of many legislators and judges to respond to all perceived crime problems with longer and longer terms of imprisonment".

While scholars have long identified an early modern tendency to borrow and redeploy texts, Bound to Read reveals that these strategies of imitation and appropriation were rooted in concrete ways of engaging with books.

The proliferation of venues for the ceremony runs parallel to the use of a wedding day as a vehicle for self-expression: an inevitable and distinctively modern tendency.

The weakest part of the production was the staging by Jose Maria Condemi, who had Bluebeard and Judith go in for a lot of conventional melodrama (ignoring the reasonable modern tendency toward a revisionist feminist interpretation of the opera).

By thus subordinating what we might call national or racial/ethnic identity to theological identity, Genesis presents an alternative to the modern tendency to regard race as preconditioning all experience, including religious experience.

I've been puzzled for a long time by the modern tendency to try to justify life experiences by pointing to research about how they "make us better" in some way.

This would be a dangerous drift of the modern tendency towards the naturalization of bodies and minds.

On Good Friday (9 April 17733, James Boswell and Samuel Johnson breakfasted on "cross-buns", an early example of the modern tendency to over-sweet breakfasts which, from sugary cereals to french toast, HTE finds appalling.