Sentence examples for relation to modern from inspiring English sources

Gould is more interested in tracing his intellectual ancestors than in positioning himself in relation to modern evolutionary thought.

So said William Morris in 1877 in an address titled The Decorative Arts: Their Relation to Modern Life and Progress.

He goes on at some length to analyze our relation to modern civilization in the vocabulary of co-dependency, addiction, denial, and recovery.

Moreover, his vision of class, where downtrodden salt-of-the-earth mill hands groan under the lash of wicked heartless mill owners, bears no relation to modern Britain.

Analysis of the story and its relation to modern youth & then a long essay on the "generation gap" of today, which differs greatly from the fifties.

Commander Shepard (no relation to Modern Warfare's General Shepherd) is in control of a gracefully elongated spaceship, the Normandy, which has bunk beds, fishtanks, and a wisecracking mess officer who also cleans the bathrooms.

French, one of the oldest influences on and closest relations to modern English, is below all of them with only 147,000 speakers.

In his study Das Sexualleben unserer Zeit in seinen Beziehungen zur modernen Kultur (1907; The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization), Bloch called for the founding of a new science that integrated the medical, psychological, and cultural approaches to the study of human sexuality, which he named Sexualwissenschaft (sexology).

As the Mannerists toiled in the twilight of the Renaissance, so do we in relation to the modern age — the word "modern" having been torn from its roots to signify things that loom behind us.

Likewise, an interesting new trade regulatory debate is popping up in relation to the modern slavery trade.

The significance of polygonal and figurate numbers lies in their relation to the modern theory of numbers.