Sentence examples for height of modernity from inspiring English sources

People had celebrated them … as the height of modernity.

It's simple, not outrageously expensive and feels like the height of modernity.

There's a poignancy about something that was the height of modernity that has got lost.

In their day, the apartments, with electricity and indoor plumbing, seemed the height of modernity; now, surrounded by sleeker, newer buildings, they're considered a slum.

The awnings were the height of modernity in the 1970's, the next step after the 19th-century canvas awnings that greengrocers hand-cranked to shield their vegetables from the sun.

Can you imagine that in a robotised production line in the car industry if you put a spoonful of sugar in some valve you stop the whole production line, it's so fragile although it's the height of modernity.

It operated on the B, D, N, Q and R lines over a period of 40 years, representing "the height of transit modernity" at a moment when elevated lines often still featured wooden cars, according to the New York Transit Museum.

He illustrates how that tension has made many an Israeli ambivalent: "His head reaches to the heights of secular modernity: the attraction of the sciences and the arts, the pleasures and discontents of 20th-century civilization.

The Silver Theater was designed with a nautical theme, at a time when ocean liners were considered the height of luxury and modernity.

In the region's new megacities, height is might, speed is wealth, density is power, and the skyscraper -- that American symbol of modernity -- grows on steroids and is colonizing the sky.

What looked like the road to progress, from the ancient world of superstition up to the sunstruck heights of the Enlightenment, had been the opposite, a descent from Olympian reason to the quicksand of modernity: liberal "relativism," "nihilism".