Sentence examples for flashes of modernity from inspiring English sources

There are flashes of modernity.

On the streets of Pyongyang, there are flashes of modernity, even style.

Gazans are materially cut off from the world economy, just as in Cuba: everything patched up and odd flashes of modernity amid an economy trapped in the 1970s – the occasional new car alongside battered Volvos and even more battered donkeys.

In a class of ten- and eleven-year-olds, one boy asked, "Why is America trying to provoke a war with us?" On the streets of Pyongyang, there are flashes of modernity, even style.

CK: If you don't have a TV, and you have a willful refusal to be distracted by all the flashing lights of modernity, then it's actually pretty easy.

The silk robes are bold and colorful pieces that evoke an Arabian flair with that touch of modernity and flash.

It really is chilling, and Indiana Jones's bewildering predicament at the very epicentre of modernity gives a flash of the old Spielberg; the Spielberg of Jaws and Close Encounters.

With his focuses on tailoring, tweaked to modernity, and on flashes of summer colors, Mr. Armani showed that he had seen the light.

In Harrower's play, it's a flash of imagination that disrupts the old order; here, it's the arrival of modernity.

This whimsy of modernity.

Radical precursor of modernity.