Sentence examples for the very modern from inspiring English sources

You see the very modern life beginning to impact on individuals.

The Protestant Reformation was a precursor of the very modern world on which Benedict's Vatican has turned its back.

It has virtually no provisions for the very modern problem of aging and physically or mentally declining popes.

I am fascinated by "virtue signalling": the very modern phenomenon of using people, places and concepts as shorthand for one's saintliness.

In a similar appreciative spirit, the French critic André Fontainas praised Gauguin for "his complete sincerity," "surging emotions," and the very modern "violent oppositions" of his colours.

Port Harcourt, on the Niger River, displays forcibly the combination of the primitive and the very modern, of poverty and wealth.

Now, to open the new session, the Pope entered St. Peter's on foot, carrying the very modern-looking staff — a long, slender, dull-metal crucifix — that he later brought to New York and used at the Mass at Yankee Stadium.

However, there is a new breed of 21st-century almshouse, as exemplified by the very modern-looking four-storey development of 20 one-bed apartments being built in Walthamstow, north-east London.

Sadly, it isn't: it's the very modern-day true story of a bride I worked with who was still disappointed in her wedding gown, even after trying on more than 100 dresses.

Young people love the very new and modern version of Sherlock.

Even the otherwise very modern Grey shares the same doubts.