Sentence examples for threshold of modernity from inspiring English sources

Müller's hurdy-gurdy player, then, must have seemed particularly appealing to a composer and musician living on the threshold of modernity, all too conscious of the dangers of falling into the terrifying state of indigence that the old man represents.

"Hasui worked at the threshold of memory and modernity.

This whimsy of modernity.

The face of modernity?

Radical precursor of modernity.

The trappings of modernity are everywhere.

"Plants are the great symbol of modernity".

It is a symbol of modernity.

But signs of modernity have crept in.

That individuality is the essence of modernity.

My idea of modernity was Nietzsche's thinking about modernity".