Sentence examples for representations of modern from inspiring English sources

Instead, there are grisly representations of modern horrors like drug abuse, drunk driving and AIDS.

Tyke Tiler was the first in a long sequence of stories about Cricklepit primary school, which remains one of the most realistic representations of modern primary-school life.

Kafka could invent, and the forces that oppressed him were enough interior to be converted into giant fables, comic representations of modern man's cosmic unease.

In Piscator's production of Sturm über Gottland ("Storm over Gothland"; 1927), which is set in the 14th century, a filmed prologue showed the major actors moving toward the camera, metamorphosing in the process from historically costumed characters to representations of modern historical figures; the protagonist, for example, turned into Lenin.

MOH is a robust, if seldom surprising, rebuttal to MW2's dominance, and its measured tone and diligent observation of military patter make it a marginally more meaningful representation of modern warfare itself.

In any case, it is needed for the representation of modern Sinhala.

His representation of modern life with its confusion, brutality and struggle, all the uncontrolled shouts of pain and ignorance and behind it all the side drum's harsh rhythm as the only disciplining force as the public fled, made a touch of almost diabolic humour.

Even his most original trope, the split-screen, in which he creates an audacious counterpoint of images, veers from a thrilling representation of modern-day information overload to the visual equivalent of academic composition, in which contrasts and clashes are downplayed in favor of coherence and consistency.

Well, if you had a liquidity event maybe you can pick one of these up and, more important, its one of the purest representations of the modern watchmakers art.

The group produces Web sites, books and touring shows and orchestrates 1960's-style "happenings," aimed at showing the impact of technology and its representation on modern life.

This video had so many intriguing details -- truly a good representation of a modern couple working out the gender issues in our modern society.