Sentence examples for more modern text from inspiring English sources

And, no doubt as a reaction to Waley's flowery prose, he stripped away a lot of the ornament to arrive at a more modern text that conveys its meaning with far greater accuracy and concision.

Finkel is a curator at the British Museum specialising in ancient Mesopotamian scripts, but it is the preservation of more modern texts that has become his hobby since he stumbled across Williams' diary.

NO MODERN text has been more intensely and intelligently analysed than the fewer than 8,000 words of the constitution of the United States.

Nesterenko, as far as I'm concerned makes it essential viewing: for a fuller text and a more modern take, with the opera updated to the 20th century, and the emphasis very firmly placed on the politics of revolution and regime change, try Herbert Wernicke's 1998 Salzburg production, conducted by Claudio Abbado: you can watch it here.

But it also offers more modern features, like letting users strike-through text, add images or audio and even search through a document's metadata to find its version history.

While the subject matter and texts are ancient, the teaching method involves a more modern tool -- nail polish.

Many an author, challenged by these texts, changed their philosophical alliances from traditional Augustinian thought to a more modern and progressive Aristotelianism, "spiced up" by its Arabic commentators.

Mr. Vanska meticulously studied the composer's original texts and instructions, stripping the manicured European veneer to reveal a wilder, craggier, more modern, more Finnish Sibelius.

It's more modern.

Apps look cleaner, more modern.

He wanted more modern weapons.