Sentence examples for modern reflections from inspiring English sources

These speculations, and those drawn from other atomist sources, were often in the background of novel early modern reflections on species origins and their possible transformation in time throughout the eighteenth century (Bowler 2003, chp. 2; Oldroyd 1996; Greene 1959).

Early, now classic paper, that underlies modern reflection mapping.

The German philosopher Immanuel Kant set the terms for much modern reflection on God's existence when he challenged the grounds of most previous efforts to prove it.

We're going to restore the facade in the traditional character that it was built and the interiors will be a modern reflection of this very storied building.

I welcome this apparent step forward from the Sun, but I would encourage its editors to consider whether parading women in bikinis is really a modern reflection of the contribution women make to society.

Chairs remained scarce throughout the Middle Ages, and occupation of a chair long symbolized authority or a mark of honour, and even a large house might possess only chairs for the lord and his wife and perhaps another for a distinguished visitor; the use of the word chairman is a modern reflection of this medieval custom.

He interprets the unsettling qualities of today's architecture its fragmented neo-constructivist forms reminiscent of dismembered bodies, its "seeing walls" replicating the passive gaze of domestic cyborgs, its historical monuments indistinguishable from glossy reproductions - in the light of modern reflection on questions of social and individual estrangement, alienation, exile, and homelessness.

In her cover story for the Atlantic Magazine, author Hanna Rosin says these photos are a modern reflection of teenaged sexuality.

Depending on your view, "she" is either at the cutting edge of the human-robot interface, or a modern reflection on some men's difficulties in relating to real-life partners.

The liberal model's origins are traceable to the Roman Empire and early-modern reflections on Roman law (Walzer 1989, 211).

Health-related quality of life has emerged as the new reflection of modern medicine as viewed from biopsychosocial perspectives.