The desire for make-up is not a modern construct.
Although Mullah Omar and his immediate colleagues did look as if they'd escaped from the cast of a production of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" (their retro fashion itself a telegenic political statement), the wider jihad movement is not a benighted relic of the Middle Ages but a modern construct, built and operated by thoroughly modern young men.
Lucy Worsley, chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces, a British conservation group, and the author of "If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home," makes the point that not only are private bedrooms (and beds) a relatively modern construct, but so, too, is the eight-hour rest.
XO sauce, somewhat like Yoon himself, is a modern construct.
What's more interesting is how the serial killer is a very modern construct, rising out of the 50s and 60s' rapid increase in surveillance and personal connectivity.
But you have to respect Oscar's standing as maybe the only modern construct allowing this many people to complain about what is ultimately a judgment of art.
"This 'incessant menstruation' is actually a modern construct," Yen says, explaining that because women are having fewer children overall and having them later in life, we're having more periods than we ever have in history.
This ancient premise parallels the modern construct of self-efficacy in behavioral science.
They're modern constructs who know they are constructs.
Additionally, the Pacific World has been central to forging modern constructs of race, gender, and sexuality.
