Sentence examples for strangely modern from inspiring English sources
After all, J. M. Barrie's tale, first produced onstage in 1904, is already strangely modern.
Whatever the full story of her long and unusual life, Mary Seacole is a strangely modern figure.
They give the scenes a strangely modern edge without in any way being untrue to the period.
These recyclings suggest that behind all the fin-de-siècle props — demimondaines, officers, aristocrats, duels, dances, and dalliances — lurks something strangely modern.
The first time I went to a dance class was in high school, when, strangely, modern dance was offered as an alternative to gym.
It feels both exotic and familiar, ancient and strangely modern, and though this is a show that defies all western theatrical traditions, its strangeness becomes compelling.
The orchestra's characterful accentuation (as opposed to shoddy play, which reigned only for two bars or so) of this introduction (which I later realized reminds me of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet) had a strangely modern-sounding vibe to it.
They made Graham a fortune, though even at the height of their popularity - they were first shown from 1975 to 1977 - he himself remained a strangely (by modern standards) unknown figure.
Instead, his dark-humored viewpoint seems strangely moving and modern.
What is that image on the cover, so strangely antiquated and modern at the same time?
For a doctor to speak of the "worth" of his patients falls strangely on the modern ear.
