Sentence examples similar to a modernizing trend from inspiring English sources

The award was very much criticized at the time as the Gothic design went against the modernizing trend set by the Chicago School and against the ideas of the more functional European architecture, later known as the International Style, which reduced decorations to the bare minimum.

As Shanghai was also problematically a part of a modernizing nation, national trends were refracted in these films.

A modernizing democrat or a "kleptocrat in a Hermès scarf"?

And on the topic of sex Mr. Hunka can't resist a modernizing frankness.

Upon their return they took important positions and were a modernizing force in society.

The approach is tested on a modernizing urban quarter in the Old City of Beijing.

As well as a modernizing vision for their countries, they share a penchant for Shakespearean drama.

Kampala is a modernizing city, and the wealthier neighborhoods are full of cafés, shopping malls, and lush foliage.

The neckline was rather eye-catching, severe almost, with an asymmetrical cross-over that seemed intended as a modernizing effect.

That in turn is the best — arguably the only — path to a modernizing, politically plural, economically integrated South Asia.

After Reza Shah founded the Pahlavi dynasty in 1925, he started a modernizing spree in which Jews participated and prospered.