Sentence examples for modern habit from inspiring English sources

Take, for example, he said, "the modern habit of propping pictures against the wall.

The modern habit of Presidential addresses delivered in the Capitol began with Wilson, and I imagine more than once a President wished he could mail it in.

The modern habit of working everywhere except in a chair facing a traditional desk has led to some creative solutions in the hospitality industry.

Hamlet has a modern habit of "dancing with his thoughts," he said, and then uttering them to himself, with the audience present only as eavesdroppers.

The emphasis on incessant close-ups also provoked players and coaches into adopting the horrible modern habit of talking to each other behind their hands.

Because it is a few years old, its lines are leaner than those of current models, which have been expanded to accommodate the modern habit of perching a laptop on the armrest.

It has to be an event that's representative of the times we live in, of modern habits and technologies.

But dozens of apparently modern habits were born 300 years ago in the Georgian period, according to an exhibition at the British Library.

An image was created by superimposing successive levels, and, to read it well, it was necessary -- contrary to our modern habits -- to begin with the bottom level and, passing through all the intermediary layers, end with the top one.

He's affable, relatable, and makes us laugh – at modern habits of charitable giving; at a dialogue between his virginity and his libido; and at the burden of being ranked 674th on the "Nasblaq index".

Modern habits have long been linked to cardiovascular disease in the public mind — in part, said Dr. Roger S. Blumenthal, director of the Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease at Johns Hopkins, because of correlations like the one between smoking and heart disease.