Sentence examples for modern surface from inspiring English sources

The track was reopened in 1993 and renovated with a modern surface, handsome steel beams and light streaming from high windows.

In the layers of mud between the 14th-century ground level and the late-Ottoman level — which is just shy of the modern surface — they discovered nothing at all.

The gist of her argument is a paradox: Chekhov's stories -- and she concentrates more on these than on the plays, which are meant to be seen and heard, rather than read -- "have a straightforward, natural, rational, modern surface; they have been described as modest, delicate, gray.

The current record is just over three minutes and forty-three seconds, though during the talk Bannister flung his long hands up and insisted that runners have only shaved thirteen seconds off his time (three minutes fifty-nine and four-tenths seconds), since the modern surface is worth four seconds in comparison with the cinder track that he had run on.

To move beyond "the straightforward, natural, rational modern surface of Chekhov's prose" and into the area of the "wild, strange and archaic", the New York journalist undertakes two journeys: a physical one to Moscow and Yalta, where Chekhov was exiled by his tuberculosis, and a metaphysical one into his letters and stories.

The notion of progressive oxidation of the disulfide group is supported by modern surface science studies.

With its clean modern surfaces and the removal of the soggy lawn, the garden doesn't have much of a mosquito problem anymore.

It is also worth noting the effects of the cinder track, which is around one to one-and-a-half seconds a lap slower than modern surfaces.

Another horse, Mr President, died at Plumpton on Sunday, and, on Monday, Pivotal Era slipped and broke a leg on Lingfield's all-weather course - one of the modern surfaces that Greg celebrates as being so much safer.

In each case, patterns in the form of traditional ornament are placed over sleek, modern surfaces, as if to proclaim both the importance of decoration and the futility of using it in the traditional, three-dimensional way.

With its parallel romances, cool modern surfaces and intoxicating desires, "Chungking Express" was easier on the eyes (and brain) than the elliptical, drifty "Ashes of Time," with its Buddhist adages, flowing robes and dunes, and confusion of falling and flying bodies.