"He's the most modern of us all," he said, invoking Met directors.
Rooms with diabolical-looking instruments offering the most modern of heat and water treatments are all sparklingly new.
And instead of any method of studying the speech of individuals, the most modern thing of all is corpus analysis: taking billions of words of text from geotagged posts on Twitter, from online regional newspapers and running them through elaborate statistical processing.
The metaphorical force of the story and the indifferent contempt of the African who announces "Mistah Kurtz – He dead" (brilliantly expropriated by TS Eliot) gives Heart of Darkness the most modern air of all the books that make up the movement called Modernism.
That, I have learned, is the most modern love of all.
The ships which survived the treaty, including the most modern super-dreadnoughts of all three navies, formed the bulk of international capital ship strength through the 1920s and 1930s and, with some modernisation, into World War II.
It is white because that is the most modern and timeless of all colours and you can't have a "Time Machine", as one drawing shows, without decorating for modernity.
The Museum of Natural History in Berlin houses one of the most modern evolution galleries of all.
And, although he was a champion of the most modern forms of architecture and design, he revelled in all manner of interesting machinery, civil or military.
