In the basement, the original vaulted Roman baths have been adapted and modernised with three pools of different temperatures.
The countryside has modernised, with old-style landlords yielding to more enlightened heirs or to corporate farmers, for whom land is a business rather than a source of political power.That has not placated the landless movements.
In his wake, it seems almost every classic performed by a major theatre company is being rewritten and modernised with Australian accents, stripped back to its basics and spat out in a sparse yet shocking new treatment.
An elite that has commandeered the language so that modernisation (which everyone agrees is long overdue) is in fact not progressive but reactionary: it conflates the need to modernise with the necessity to sell off the profitable parts of the business.
At some point modernised with a dinged-up metal desk, sink and toilet, the cell is perhaps less grim than it was in Wilde's time, when evidence of his dysentery overflowed the small tin vessel he had to use for a toilet and made his warders gag.
In the early 19th century this line was shifted somewhat to the east, beyond Utrecht, and later modernised with fortresses.
For example, my own bank, the Co-op, recently updated its business banking site (the old one was "best viewed with Windows 2000!"), "modernising" it with a new two-factor authentication scheme in the form of a little numeric keypad gadget you carry around with you.
He said Dobbies had been well looked after by Tesco, which opened 17 new outlets and invested heavily in the stores, modernising them with a Scandinavian-style design.
Born Francisco Sanchez Gomez, he was credited with modernising the Spanish Gypsy tradition with jazz and bossa nova influences during a decades-long career.
The designer, famed for his chameleon style, has been widely credited with revamping and modernising the house with his intricate and varied collections which draw widespread acclaim among the fashion elites.
