modernity
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They fled to modernity — Parton to Nashville, my parents to Southern California — as soon as they could but never forsook their hometowns, helping those who remained and taking their culture with them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Silents aren’t entirely lost to modernity, of course.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026
Her Butterfly is no pathetic victim—having chosen Pinkerton, America and modernity, she finally accepts that they will destroy her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
An inside student might say that prisons in eastern Oregon used to be mental institutions and Army barracks; an outside student might speak about modernity and the need for discipline and control under capitalism.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
They went to the Reichssportfeld and came away impressed by the immensity and modernity of the stadium.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
In it, he seemed to shove fiction abruptly in the direction of the 21st century, describing humans as they muddled through overwhelming modernities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
Do you find that they are incorporating a lot of modern techniques or modernities in general into the etiquette rules now?
From Slate ● May 2, 2017
The combination was surprisingly good, with the stark modernities of “Limen” set against the lush romanticism of “Marguerite” and the vaguely mystical rites of “Requiem.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2011
Despite a deplorably high turnover in talent, American Ballet Theatre has the physical resources to succeed in everything it does, from a purist four-act Swan Lake to Grahamesque modernities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just as we want the newest books and phonographs, the latest conveniences in housing and sanitation, so we want the latest modernities in political, social, and intellectual matters.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman
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