Sentence examples for modern-day connotations from inspiring English sources

All that can be said is that there is an obvious tension between the ritual and its modern-day connotations.

Let it be added that the seduction scenes--especially the first one--have modern connotations, closely mirroring modern-day discourse about "locker room talk".

"We may applaud Twain's ability as a prominent American literary realist to record the speech of a particular region during a specific historical era," Gribben added, "but abusive racial insults that bear distinct connotations of permanent inferiority nonetheless repulse modern-day readers".

They pointed out that red brick and white pillars had not altogether happy historical connotations for the black students that the modern-day University of Virginia was competing hard to recruit.

The plesiosaurs have no modern-day analogs.

Modern-day almanacs are of several types.

Modern-day I. Q

Modern-day problems.

Modern-day hermit syndrome".

Think modern-day Mogadishu.

Modern-day Thracians beware.