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The only sign of modernity was a small radio set, hooked up to an external D battery.† (source)
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The place is far from new; indeed it's almost seedy, despite its jaunty modernity — the pale-yellow tiles, the white plastic tables bolted to the floor, their moulded chairs attached.† (source)
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A few cultures have retained this harmonious relationship with our people, though only in places where both modernity and the major religions have failed to gain a foothold, such as the black-magic island of Ambrym in the New Hebrides.† (source)
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In exchange for their labor in clearing terrain and building infrastructure and assembling dwellings from prefabricated blocks, migrants were promised forty meters and a pipe: a home on forty square meters of land and a connection to all the utilities of modernity.† (source)
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This is the greatest handicap of Muslim Middle Eastern societies today, the flaw that most bars them from modernity.† (source)
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Despite the fact that Esteban Trueba was no great lover of innovation, and had, in fact, a deep mistrust of the dislocations of modernity, he decided that his house should be constructed like the new palaces of North America and Europe, with all the comforts but retaining a classical style.† (source)
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It seemed more like bold modernity, which was how Fermina Daza must have understood it, for in her second letter to Florentino Ariza, she began by begging his pardon for any difficulties in reading her handwriting, since she did not have at her disposal any means more advanced than her steel pen.† (source)
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Bulbuls and roses would still persist, the pathos of defeated Islam remained in his blood and could not be expelled by modernities.† (source)
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The cold night smelled like dirt and plants and human modernity—Clary almost thought she could scent the iron on the air.† (source)
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Modernity, led by the automobile, was perforating the frontier.† (source)
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Her first impression, of a society torn between tradition and modernity, lingered and grew over the next two years.† (source)
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Some people are put off by the modern design, they distrust modernity, but then I tell them that it is this that whitens the teeth of the King of England.† (source)
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The antenna of a powerful radio transmitter jutted up beyond the edge of the roof like a flagless pole, announcing Khan's affiliation with modernity.† (source)
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The modernity and precision—and, above all, the "manufactured" look of the plates—really excited him, and he was sure it would excite everybody else as well.† (source)
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But this house was the essence of modernity.† (source)
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Even in modernity, the ages of darkness were not so far behind us.† (source)
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