Sentence examples for scandalously modern from inspiring English sources

Yet it lived again, until almost the end of the 20th, in the shape of Princess Diana, albeit with the long black hood exchanged for a little black dress.During her short, sad life, Diana was seen as a scandalously modern princess; after her sadder death, and as its tenth anniversary approaches next week, she has been enlisted as a posthumous poster girl for various progressive causes.

Unless they are scandalously scandalous.

Shortbus Scandalously uninhibited study of New Yorkers coming together.

Skirts are scandalously short, cars are new and most of the old town has been restored.

"Scandalous" isn't so much scandalously bad as it is generic and dull.

As for contemporary novels, two of the best to feature the game are scandalously ill-known: Adult Book, by Malcolm Knox, about a modern-day Test captain struggling with his form and an obsession with porn, and the achingly poetic novella 24 for 3 by Jennie Walker (the pen-name of Charles Boyle).

And, third, the Tate Modern, a renovated power plant that opened to ecstatic fanfare two years ago, is a scandalously lousy place for looking at art.

But citizens, scandalously, demand more.

I scavenged a scandalously small sum.

She was scandalously unladylike, yet unashamedly feminine.

Child marriages are scandalously common in Yemen.