The modernity of the modern cinema takes place in many dimensions — most conspicuously, in the image and in performance.
It presents a type of creativity and a design approach that differ from the values embraced by modernism, but that nevertheless engage with the modernity of the suburb in a complex hybridity between the modern and traditional, the sacred and the secular, religious and domestic cultures, the particular, the transnational and the universal.
Some works in "Manhattan Contrasts" try to convey the modernity of the city with a self-consciously modernizing style.
Allied to the sleek, muscular modernity of the arrangements, the lyrics refract the tawdry web of modern life, offering sometimes brutal commentaries on contemporary events.
The modernity of the response eludes me a little.
What baffled Picasso and enchanted his companion was the streamlined ease, speed and cutting-edge modernity of the entire procedure.
The violence in human nature Watching Holmes rehearse the play, what's striking is the vivid modernity of the characters' voices.
More positively, Morin praised the width of the corridors and the modernity of the large and informative new scoreboard.
But this flavour is dissipated by the puzzling "splintered how" and the seeming modernity of the climatic "my now".
Giuseppe Sinopoli/Philharmonia Orchestra - Sinopoli's controversially slow performance reveals the modernity of the colours and counterpoints of Elgar's symphony.
"I witnessed first-hand the cancer of political Islam and how it was eradicating the modernity of the Egypt I know.
