modernity

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

Beethoven’s genius was to convert their modernity into something that would, in due course, become the mainstream.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

The singing alternated between hummable melodies and tricky modernities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chateau de Maintenon The existence of this princely residence is an agreeable reminder of the life of luxury of the olden time albeit certain modernities which we to-day think necessities are lacking.

From Royal Palaces and Parks of France by Blanche McManus