Sentence examples for rather more modern from inspiring English sources

Sledging is rather more modern than that.

Chung looks rather more modern in a sleek navy trouser suit with – just seen – a cheerful purple and leopard-print clutch.

As he died in 1099, he won't have ridden (dead or alive) across the 12th century Puente de Piedra, a rather more modern bridge than many of the ones the camino has crossed.

Currently about 250,000 people visit the site every year; by comparison, the rather more modern, Eero Saarinen-designed Gateway Arch in St Louis attracts four million visitors annually.

Whether seated amid all the chandeliers, caryatids and chintz tablecloths of the ballroom or settled around the brightly lit board table of a rather more modern business suite, one might think the average visitor to London's Café Royal hotel would be unlikely to welcome the sound of fists smacking into jaws, nor the plash sportsmen's sweat landing at their feet.

J.H. Kim, the president of Cheil Jedang, a medium-sized chaebol known for its rather more modern attitudes (including a casual dress code), is convinced that "the chaebol will be broken up into focused companies," and that professionals will replace family members.

But they tell us rather more about modern America.

Jim Dever of Plaistow, N.H., said, "I'd be fibbing if I didn't say I felt that I'd rather have more modern conditions once in a while, but too much has happened here and, to be honest, it's just minor inconveniences".

Unlike Scotland, Irish tower houses were only defended with relatively light handguns and frequently reused older arrowloops, rather than more modern designs, to save money.

Congress held hearings, focusing on the inspection records of the older, more decrepit short-haul trucks that shuttle back and forth at the border, rather than the more modern long-haul carriers used in Mexico.

Despite the name, the album features the original Super Nintendo version of the music, rather than a more modern synthesizer sound.