A hospital's modern responsibility is to bluntly deliver to the dying the unhappy news that this is it, the jig is up.
By contrast, Buck's brother Will Jamess Lesure and Willl's wife, Alexis (Nia Long), are models of modern adult responsibility, in that they are continually overwhelmed in their attempt to balance work and family (though not so overwhelmed that their beautifully appointed home looks anything other than, you know, beautifully appointed).
The Lees blend traditional values and rituals with modern roles and responsibilities: they are at turns provincial and worldly, dutiful and irreverent.
PAGE 20 Metropolitan THREE GENERATIONS UNDER ONE ROOF In a converted apartment building in Chinatown, five adults and seven children blend traditional values and rituals with modern roles and responsibilities.
There are plenty of mothers in the workforce and more modern child-rearing responsibilities don't sit squarely on just the partner bearing the children.
It has been normalized that in the modern family, parental responsibilities will be split more evenly.
To some extent, all modern governments assume responsibility for protecting the political and social rights of their citizens.
There is, however, nothing particularly modern about evading responsibility and it would be an admirable thing if you could immediately set about clawing power back to the centre.
He referred to a "single powerful modern sense demanding responsibility from all and fairness to all".
Topics included, among others, modern technology, ecological imperatives, responsibilities and control of the mass media, minority and constitutional rights, and world peace.
