Sentence examples for modern triumph from inspiring English sources

She's a modern triumph over tragedy.

In terms of timeless architecture, such disadvantages are unimportant, for Niterói is a modern triumph, something that deserves to be considered alongside such great buildings as Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater; Le Corbusier's chapel at Ronchamp and Mies van der Rohe's Farnworth house.

Mr. Graham's mother, Katharine Graham, one of a tiny group of major newspaper publishers who have won Pulitzer Prizes in their own right, took over in 1969 and presided over the newspaper's greatest modern triumph, the coverage of the Watergate scandal, which ended with the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon.

But in the hands of Guillermo del Toro, a cinema savant with an unbridled imagination and a unique talent for creature and set design, Pacific Rim is a modern triumph and probably the most fun you'll have at the movies this summer.

Of course, Nasa does have its modern triumphs.

It was supposed to be a modern-day triumph of homespun values, loyalty over abject greed, at least until Griffey started slowly, the Reds sank under.500 and stuffed their best pitcher, Denny Neagle, into George Steinbrenner's bottomless pocket.

Peter Oborne's rambunctious J'accuse of modern politics, The Triumph of the Political Class (Pocket Books), will have both Cameroonians and New Labour apparatchiks squirming in their champagne bars.

The accepted interpretation now is that the mauve moment reflected the eighties' collective grasping at understated "refinement": hence the "sophisticated" palette, built on a gray foundation that served to both tone the colors down and achieve a level of steeliness, which, in turn, signified modern science's triumph over nature.

Meantime, over in the race for Best Comedy Series, nearly all of the experts pick Modern Family to triumph for a third consecutive year.

The trench barrier was consolidated from the Swiss frontier to the Atlantic; the power of modern defense had triumphed over the attack, and stalemate ensued.

India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and then the Congress party (successor to the INC) promoted a pacifist narrative of history, the idea that Gandhi and the likes of B.R. Ambedkar, a social reformer who inspired the Modern Buddhist Movement, triumphed through non-violent resistance.