not modern
Example Sentences
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“Poor construction quality is the primary cause of failure, not modern versus traditional material systems.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
She has stuck to a small coterie of designers and brands who are contemporary but not modern, conservative but not old-fashioned, like Markarian, Gabriela Hearst and Brandon Maxwell.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023
Ema’s passion is street dance, not modern — reggaeton to be specific — which she indulges in with her uber-hip and slightly menacing girl gang of friends from the dance company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2021
However quantum theory was developed at the same time the TV series Downton Abbey takes place, which makes it clear how not modern quantum theory is now.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 1, 2020
Large nests of buildings in the middle distance are always beautiful, when drawn carefully, provided they are not modern rows of pattern cottages; or villas with Ionic and Doric porticos.
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John
