Sentence examples for modern about from inspiring English sources

But what's modern about black leather pants?

And there's something modern about the story.

Yet there's also something very modern about these throwback tics.

The sleeping pill came close, but there was something morbidly modern about it.

What feels modern about these portraits is their contempt for the viewer.

Even here in Northern California, there's nothing modern about the weather.

If it was new, there was nothing remotely modern about it.

But as Thomas Piketty suggests in his study of inequality in the late capitalist age, there is something decidedly pre-modern about this phase neoliberalism, with its plutocrats, oligarchs and rentiers back in full swing.

Either he was exceptionally gifted (and for all I know, he may well be), or the practice of recruiting regionally accomplished swimmers in order to convert them into internationally élite pentathletes reveals something limited — and anti-modern — about the ambition of Pierre de Coubertin's favorite event.

Part of Stephen Greenblatt's "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," about the rediscovery of Lucretius' "The Nature of Things," appeared in our August 8th issue.

We also published her story "Blue Water Djinn". Part of Stephen Greenblatt's "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," about the rediscovery of Lucretius' "The Nature of Things," appeared in our August 8th issue.