Sentence examples for progress toward modernity from inspiring English sources

Follett uses the tools of popular fiction to great effect in these books, illuminating a nation's gradual progress toward modernity.

In the early twentieth century, after the fall of the last imperial dynasty, traditional Chinese religion came under attack from patriotic intellectuals like Sun Yat-sen, who thought it had impeded the country's progress toward modernity.

The only way is to allow the society to evolve and to progress toward modernity.

She was intensely curious, and wanted to suck out all the vibrancy of New York--its York--its York--itsngs, its progress toward modernity, its sweep of events, its grand operas as well as its tiny human dramas taking placrowdstallLower East Side.

We're made aware of how much the stage world has progressed toward modernity.

The title of his book, which is written in Spanish, means, "Mexico: A Difficult Step Toward Modernity".

Likewise, though, she sows doubt about the scholarly enchantment with enchantment that it is not so much a mode of romantic resistance to rational disciplines, but another contrivance for modern operators to deploy against those who have not made similar progress toward secular modernity.

Conjectural histories reveal a surprising ambivalence toward progress, modernity, and secularization among leading thinkers of the time, an attitude that affected texts as varied as Darwin's Descent of Man, Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality, and the novels of Walter Scott, George Eliot, and H.G. Wells.

Urbanisation was equated with progress and modernity.

He dared tug his country toward modernity.

Diagnosis: no real progress to modernity.