Sample Sentences formodernity (auto-selected)
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I suppose modernity will have its way, whatever our desires.† (source)
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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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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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But this house was the essence of modernity.† (source)
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere "modernity" cannot kill.† (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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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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A Chagall—Clary's favorite, all soft roses and blues and greens, incongruous against the apartment's modernity.† (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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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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Her first impression, of a society torn between tradition and modernity, lingered and grew over the next two years.† (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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This is the greatest handicap of Muslim Middle Eastern societies today, the flaw that most bars them from modernity.† (source)
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Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment universal, and Dandyism, which, in its own way, is an attempt to assert the absolute modernity of beauty, had, of course, their fascination for him.† (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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