Sentence examples for modern vein from inspiring English sources

The Stravinsky strikes a celebratory note and looks to a more modern vein, he said.

It's not a film of a nostalgic anti-modernity; it's a model of imaginative freedom and audacity in a supremely, sublimely modern vein.

Even with casting and performances that reflect the variety of black experiences, and with costuming, a hauntingly percussive musical score and intervals of dance that are all redolent of African culture, the show feels cross-cultural in a modern vein.

Mr. Perrin quotes poetic questions which appear in the works of eight mostly nineteenth-century poets and writes a reply to each in a very modern vein, citing current psychology, mechanization, break-up of estates, fallout, etc. Humorous.

Fellows and faculty members of the music center offered a survey of American songs of the 20th century, mostly in a conservative modern vein except for John Cage's "Wonderful Widow of 18 Springs," in which the pianist raps on wood rather than playing the keys.

By Noel Perrin The New Yorker, June 26 , 1965P. 23 Mr. Perrin quotes poetic questions which appear in the works of eight mostly nineteenth-century poets and writes a reply to each in a very modern vein, citing current psychology, mechanization, break-up of estates, fallout, etc. Humorous.

Italian-Kitchen, a new, shoe-box-size trattoria in Ardsley that taps into the "ode to nonna" and rustic-modern vein, is the perfect sort of place to eat on a cold night.

I'm a hundred percent a rock 'n' roll drummer but I wanted to play that music in this modern-day vein with the technological benefits we've got today, and had years ago with the synthesizer and then MIDI.

While making Rapunzel's music more modern in the vein of a singer-songwriter, "young and contemporary and fresh," Menken decided to make Gothel's songs "more classic Broadway," described as more of a "a big stage diva type" of music.

This insight informs the world's earliest literature and comes right down to the rich vein of modern Iraqi poetry.

Houshiary is heir to a mystical vein in modern art whose Sistine Chapel is Rothko's room of near-black paintings in Houston.