Sentence examples for cusp of modernity from inspiring English sources
The Habsburg capital is on the cusp of modernity, its cosmopolitan mix of nationalities, and the dangerous new notions propagated by Sigmund Freud are evocatively pictured.There are hints too of the terrible darkness yet to come.
By setting the opera at the time of its creation, Carsen shows Vienna not as a nostalgic playground but as a teeming metropolis on the cusp of modernity, war and the end of empire.
Given the importance of trying to bolster economic independence in the overall plan for Afghanistan, the skittish responses and decreasing investment and hiring strike right at hopes that this impoverished nation, still barely on the cusp of modernity, can thrive on its own.
Les Naufragés du Fol Espoir (Aurores), Royal Highland Centre, 23 28 August Parisian collective Théâtre du Soleil are one of the world's most revered companies; this spectacular seaborne version of a posthumous novel by Jules Verne captures the 20th century on the cusp of modernity.
The state's "official artists", such as muralists Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco, sung the praises of the revolutionary government; architects such as Manuel Amabilis and Obregón Santacilia designed buildings that captured the nation's "spirit"; and writers such as Manuel Maples Arce represented the cusp of the much sought-after synthesis of modernity and tradition.
This whimsy of modernity.
Radical precursor of modernity.
The trappings of modernity are everywhere.
"Plants are the great symbol of modernity".
My idea of modernity was Nietzsche's thinking about modernity".
