Sentence examples for our modern experience from inspiring English sources

Our modern experience of this "other" way of being is more tense, a "conflict landscape", says Scott. "The vocabulary of social media is gothic, even barbaric.

Schiller's famous poem, "The Gods of Greece," mournfully contrasts the experience of the ancient Greeks, in which "Everything to the initiate's eye / Showed the trace of a God," with our modern experience of "A Nature shorn of the divine [or, less poetically, "a de-divinized nature," die entgötterte Natur]" (quoted by Taylor 2007, pp. 316-7).

My grandmother's life on the farm may seem a world away from our modern experience, untethered as she was to phone, fax, e-mail or laptop, unconcerned as she was about crime in her tranquil setting.

Unlike the pin-neat three-button mod revival, say, these days, it's not about slavishly recreating an era – it's more like adding the sepia filter of the past to our modern experiences.

More than anything, though, it was beautiful being consistently surrounded by people having some of the best nights of their lives, confirming all my beliefs about how integral parties are to our collective modern experience.

Again speaking mildly, Mr. Large goes on to state that "no other place has so dramatically encapsulated the highs and lows of our modern human experience".

So why not embrace the role devices and innovation play in our modern travel experience?

But again, our modern Web experience suggests that post-publication commentary of this sort often goes largely unnoticed.

It is the model for so much of modern experience -- our amazing ability to acquire information usually depends on some distancing mechanism.

As opposed to a static view of culture, our bodies of work therefore tend to reflect the eclecticism of modern experience.

The event is sponsored by the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience.