Sentence examples for awfully modern from inspiring English sources

[11] Sully's opinion sounds awfully modern.

That's awfully modern, given the appetites of Messrs. McDermott and McGough.

A couple of commenters have also pointed out that the town looks awfully modern, and that maybe the old town is at the bottom of the reservoir.

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo serve largely as a critique — however loving — of the conventions and traditions of ballet, many of which can look awfully musty to modern-day eyes: the tiaras, the fairy tales, the hierarchies that flourish onstage and off.

"It is awfully short," Lilian Tone, the Modern's curator for the display, said ruefully.

(Too soft for our tough, gritty exterior? Too feminine for our modern machismo?) It's true, this is an awfully masculine city, what with our motors and muscle and male-driven music scene.

Looking at the increasing numbers, though, it seems awfully apparent that remote work is the future for a substantial fraction of the modern work force.

Few productions of farce since have been able to get near, making it awfully difficult to stage pure, knockabout, trouser-denuding, door-slamming romps without insulting the intelligence of modern audiences.

Get used to the jokes - the public can take an awfully long time to shift its perceptions -  but believe us when we say this one is already a modern classic.

Awfully quick.

Awfully wrong".