Sentence examples for modern past from inspiring English sources

The pairing with Mr. Raad, who was born in Lebanon and often takes that country's fraught modern past as his subject, makes perfect sense in this context.

The 1950's kitchen, unchanged down to its dishwasher, has become an artifact in its own right, a historic piece of the modern past in this unusual row.

As we surveyed China's modern past before undertaking this project, it looked something like a series of miscellaneous one-act plays all involving failed reforms, broken dreams, disjointed efforts at national self-reinvention or dead-end revolutions that did not add up to anything coherent.

The movie targets viewers who want to be kidded into believing in their own sophistication by the sheer privilege of having been born later, flattered into belief in their own progressiveness because of their greater fund of knowledge, because of their awareness — or, rather, belief, as reinforced in a movie such as "Brooklyn" — in the mentally impoverished naïveté of the modern past.

Roper approaches her task as a feminist scholar, influenced by the social and cultural approaches to the early modern past that have flourished in academia over the past 20 years, and by the lively engagement with psychoanalysis that has been a hallmark of her work since the 1990s.

In the modern past, numerous statistical models have been developed and used for scrutiny of wind speeds for assessing energy potential at a location.

But these changes haven't completely dispelled its pre-modern past.

His book, though drier than the more passionate polemics, nimbly suggests that the postmodern present is powered by the same engines as the early-modern past.

And if you listen to them attentively, as though through an echo sounder, you can hear the encompassing darkness transmit from its depths the noises and pulses of the capital's pre-modern past.

Here is a colorful setting in a slightly burnished, early-modern past (as in "Hugo Cabret"); a mysterious invitation from an exotic source to propel the narrative (as in "Harry Potter"); and a preadolescent boy hero, with several eccentric friends and a single trusty, if grumpy, older person to consult (as in... well, as in too many tales, old and new, to enumerate).

Ron concurs, saying the biggest divide today is not rural-urban or left-right but modern-past.