Sentence examples for modern statement from inspiring English sources

Despite the building's traditional vocabulary, the museum's use of glass walls makes a modern statement.

"We appreciated the architect's attempt to make a contextual but modern statement in a historic district," Ms. Raab said.

The best-known modern statement of this position is a 1921 book, "The Poetry of Dante," by the philosopher Benedetto Croce.

At the same time, its dramatic blue-and-pink glass-and-steel appearance and spectacular (if noisy and difficult to climatize) central atrium makes a bold modern statement about the open nature of government.

A good number of his designs were constructed with outside walls covered with white-glazed brick, seen by its enthusiasts as making a modern statement appropriate for midcentury architecture.

"That was fantastic," Michael Roberts, the fashion director of Vanity Fair, declared after the Jil Sander show, where laser-sharp tailoring, supersaturated color and the crisp lightness of Japanese kimono silks and synthetics made for a clear modern statement.

"I'm a little tired of those modern statements.

Few modern statements sound more like Augustine than this one, taken from an editorial Santorum penned in 2007: "Our Constitution granted unprecedented liberty to the individual.

However several selectors spontaneously commented that they were surprised by the honesty and the openness of the referees' reports made in 1990, and that more modern statements seemed bland, non-committal and uninformative in comparison.

Both the two current interpretations of his philosophy, for their typical post-modern statement, are yet improper and unproductive.

Minute gradations of emotion gave way to exaggerated, pseudo-modern statements.