Sentence examples for shockingly modern from inspiring English sources

Gesualdo's harmonies are sometimes shockingly modern and piercingly dissonant.

It was an old-fashioned idea, but in his hands it became shockingly modern.

We didn't know they existed, and look how shockingly modern they are.

The updating is not quite as jarring as it sounds, partly because "Lulu" has always been such a shockingly modern work.

There is nothing shockingly modern about the dynamic between artistic creation and technological innovation, be it an intellectual discovery like perspective or a new piece of hardware like the movie camera or the electric guitar.

To the modern reader, the high-pitched, declamatory, self-consciously ornate prose of Hawthorne in particular, often sounds on the edge of histrionics and makes his writing either awkwardly archaic or shockingly modern.

In the midst of that, of course, Shirley wrote "The Lottery," in 1948, bringing ancient ritual shockingly into the modern day.

While this concept is shockingly simple, the modern high-end outcome is a divine way to showcase art or small objects.

Thirty years is a shockingly long time, but modern slavery is more prevalent than we realise.

While Blake jetted off to Tokyo and Alexis intimidated Krystle with her (then-exotic) British accent, what most concerned the Ewings of Ewing Oil wasn't the relatively modern (and now shockingly common) goal of international success.

This isn't, though: scripted by original writers Clement and La Frenais, with Kevin Bishop as Fletcher's "cyber-criminal" grandson, it's a shockingly unfunny reboot full of crowbarred modern references and hoary jokes about Millwall FC.