Sentence examples for modern-day setting from inspiring English sources

In its modern-day setting, they're funding medical research to identify the gene for violence, and thus "cure" humanity.

Rachel, in her late 30s in this modern-day setting, never lets on whether she has read T.S. Eliot ("There will be time, there will be time/To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet"), or listened to the just-before-her-day "Eleanor Rigby," (the famed Beatles spinster, who "waits at the window, wearing the face/That she keeps in a jar by the door") but you know her creator has.

It's a great genre flip from the modern-day setting to the feeling of an old school detective show.

Then, still in a more-or-less modern-day setting, we see an "angry mob," consisting of exactly seven people in a slow jog, making absolutely no sound.

It's a fresh take on Sherlock Holmes which will transplant the sleuth to a modern-day setting.

Rick Riordan is the reigning master of ancient mythology in a modern-day setting, with his middle-­grade novels covering Greek, Roman and Egyptian gods.

The campaign, created by ad agency BBH in China, uses computer graphics to recreate Lee in a modern day setting.

I love the fact that his novels are based on mythology and how he manages to incorporate myth and legend so seamlessly into a modern day setting.

Also, of course, I love the fact that his novels are based on mythology and how he manages to incorporate myth and legend so seamlessly into a modern day setting.

Now it seems O'Connell will play a film-maker in a modern day setting – a self-reflexive theme in which Gilliam references his own failure to make the film the first time around.

But it's 2014, and for all intents and purposes, Aereo is the modern-day set of rabbit ears.