Sentence examples for remarkably modern from inspiring English sources

— and a remarkably modern refusal to sentimentalize or judge.

Compared with his contemporaries, he was remarkably modern in his use of language.

"And yet she's inimitable and a remarkably modern lady," Mr. Corsaro said recently.

Among her contemporaries she stood out, and even today films of her dancing look remarkably modern.

The most outstanding figure was the mystical philosopher Moshe Ḥayyim Luzzatto, who wrote a work on poetics and three remarkably modern plays.

Richard's work was remarkably modern - and I found it hugely inspirational to discover paintings where the subject could be the contour of an American car or Marilyn Monroe.

Finding the documents enabling me to prove that Speke, far from being the prudish bore he'd been painted as by Richard Burton's biographers, had had an affair with an ex-king's wife in Uganda and had given the king and his mother remarkably modern-sounding sexual counselling – including sharing with them the reassuring idea that size didn't matter!). 4. How long did it take?

In England, the foundations of modern vegetarianism were laid in 1683, when a Christian mystic and dietary reformer, Thomas Tryon, published a remarkably modern-sounding book, The Way to Health, Long Life and Happiness, that asked its readers to consider: "How shall they but bestial grow, / That thus to feed on beasts are willing?

The warped humour of The Revenger's Tragedy often has a remarkably deadpan, modern ring.

When the Bolshoi danced "The Bright Stream" — and honored the artists whom Stalin had punished — it demonstrated, remarkably, how modern Russians had accepted both the grim facts and the propagandizing mythology of their Soviet past.

Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about them is that they have been around since well before the dinosaurs, and with 360-million-year-old fossils looking remarkably like modern lampreys, they are said to be the oldest vertebrates.