Sentence examples for pair of modern from inspiring English sources

Somewhere in the crowd Jia spotted a pair of modern sneakers, and he stalked over.

Its current version employs a pair of modern electronic keyboards and a recorded track with a slowly morphing rhythmic sequence, using what sounds like antique Moog timbres.

There is nothing very glitzy about a dubious oaken chest or a pair of modern Louis XVI marble vases fitted to electricity.

You can thank, or blame, a pair of modern fuel savers: the electrically assisted power steering, which tends to filter out some useful sensations from the road, and the continuously variable automatic transmission, a technology that may also be described as a prophylactic against fun.

The warehouse was charmingly set up like a shop so that clients could feel they were getting a little retail therapy, though it's hard to imagine Brooke Astor grazing the aisles in Long Island City, lighting on a pair of modern Italian parcel-gilt wall lights and saying, "Oh, I'll take those".

Also among the celebrity royalty was Mario Testino, the portraitist entrusted by the royal couple with their engagement pictures, and Elton John, now so sartorially calmed that his single diamond ear stud was nothing compared to the bride's pair of modern earrings.

The narrative flits among the town's inhabitants: a pair of modern-day homesteaders who have moved from the city with their preternaturally clever daughter; a local newspaper reporter; and a family of dairy farmers who leach chemicals into the environment while blindly insisting that "attitude is more important than facts".

Hoffman maps the atmosphere of paranoia that descends on the formerly tranquil town as she moves deftly between its inhabitants: a pair of modern-day homesteaders fresh from the city; a local newspaper reporter; a family of dairy farmers who leach chemicals into the environment.

7 Before Sunrise/Before Sunset/Before Midnight Richard Linklater, 1995/2004/2013 Celine and Jesse, the great imperfect pairing of modern cinema, talk about everything but the weather across the three films that make up Richard Linklater's time-lapse relationship study, yet theirs is a relationship that seems essentially activated by summer itself.

Figure 6B displays a heat map of pairwise gene identity values between pairs of modern populations.

In an earlier investigation, all the sequences along the equally and most parsimonious paths between two pairs of modern 5S rRNA sequences were examined [ 19].