Sentence examples for reference to modern from inspiring English sources

There is barely a reference to modern communication – no mobiles, no computers, not even a radio.

At Missoni, another collection that looked better for seeming unforced, the designer Angela Missoni made reference to modern nomads.

There is no discussion here of traditional ritualistic cutting, plugs or piercings and only a glancing reference to modern boob jobs.

Yet in the event, Mr Cameron's introductory remarks about benefit fraud were brief and short on detail: there was nothing about bounty-hunters or anything so exotic: just a quick reference to modern methods of catching cheats.

An editorial in The Globe and Mail noted in reference to modern government officials and social workers that "while the missionaries of old ran roughshod over native leaders, the new missionaries pay an exaggerated respect to native elites that are often unaccountable and sometimes corrupt".

Historically, the ecology and behavior of dinosaurs has been reconstructed with reference to modern analogs, living animals that contain similar physical attributes or are closely related.

Step close, though, and you're hit with a world of well-honed references to modern art, thought, and furniture.

He decided to set himself a creative challenge: to make a record without any references to modern life (and, for the first time, he only used live instruments).

Overflowing with references to modern art, experimental film, photography and architecture, the project pulls most of the museum into its orbit.

Although "Mame," the source of that famous age line, is not mentioned, Mr. DiPietro's book is dotted with references to modern musicals.

Mr. Baldwin began blandly, simply reading the script but getting laughs nevertheless with a bit of deadpanned updating (references to modern financial instruments and MASH units, for example).