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modern

If something is modern, it happened in current times. The new house has all modern conveniences. Some new styles or forms of art and fiction writing are called modern. Much modern art looks odd to many people.

modern

belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages modern art modern furniture modern history totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric (= modernistic) relating to a recently developed fashion or style their offices are in a modern skyscraper tables in modernistic designs characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture (= advanced, forward-looking, innovative) ahead of the times the advanced teaching methods had advanced views on the subject a forward-looking corporation is British industry innovative enough? a contemporary person (= Bodoni) a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes

Modern

(= New) used of a living language; being the current stage in its development Modern English New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew

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New modern mod contemporary

Topics modern topics

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Simple sentences

Modern society is going through a moral crisis.
The art of modern warfare does not necessarily require soldiers to be armed to the teeth to be effective as combatants.
In Kyoto, you can see both old and modern buildings.
If you have no liking for modern music, you will not enjoy this concert.
Tom has an eye for modern art.
It is the correct approach to modern ski technique.
There are many modern buildings around here.
Modern technology has made our lives more comfortable.
What do you think of modern art?
I have difficulty understanding abstract modern art, especially Mondrian.
Modern philosophy has its beginnings in the 19th century.
Modern ships only need a small crew.
Modern cats don't eat rats.
Modern technology gives us many new things.
Modern jazz is not to my taste.
Modern jazz is not my line.
This is an instance of modern British life.
That architect builds very modern houses.
I went to the theater to see a modern drama.

Movie subtitles

Was it because a war in Annam, modern-day Vietnam, turned out to be more expensive than anyone had expected?
A TALE of the modern re-appearance of an 11th Century Myth involting the strange and mysterious influence of a mountebank monk over a somnambulist.
And there are still more connections between the medieval witch and the modern hysterical person.
Nowadays we detain the unhappy in a mental institution or if she is wealthy - in a modern clinic.
When acclaiming our modern heroes, let's not forget The News Reel Cameraman. the daredevil who defies death to give us pictures of the world's happenings.
But, Professor Van Helsing, modern medical science. does not admit of such a creature.
Are we really in this dreadful, modern Cairo?
Nothing modern.
I DON'T GO IN MUCH FOR MODERN ART.
Herr Poelzig is the great modern priest of that ancient cult and tonight, dark of the moon, the rites of Lucifer are celebrated.
Now, mind you, there's a still more modern trend.
It alone gives light and warmth. to the creative art of modern political propaganda.
But that does not alter the fact. that in workaday, modern London today. at this very moment. there are two cases of werewolfery known to me.
The modern racketeer.
We want to help the Arabs, to protect their language and their religion. We wish to let them run their own country and help them gradually take in the values of modern Western civilization.
Why waste time when France offered you to skip centuries and enter the modern world.
We'll turn it into a modern country.
We recommend it, as the modern and effective way.
We're turning Algeria into a modern country bringing comfort to the colonists and progress to the natives.
It's the price of progress and of a fairer, modern society.
As a defender of humanity all this time, you do realize the modern human race is no longer worthy of being protected.
But the hurly-burly of modern life has overtaken the Imperial City.
But Professor Van Helsing, modern medical science does not admit of such a creature.
I don't go in much for modern art.
It happens I spent the morning realizing that we're living in a modern world where there's no place for old-fashioned wives.
You seem to want a modern wife, and that's what I'm going to be.
Perhaps you won't think so much longer, because if being a modern husband gives you privileges, then being a modern wife gives me privileges.
I just made a luncheon date with your modern friend, Charlie Baxter.
Gentlemen, I give you the holy state of matrimony, modern style.
I don't go in much for modern art. Got any of the old masters?
I thought you modern girls had no nerves.
The town is ancient. the city is modern.
I see your point of view, dear, and it's all very modern and noble.

News and current affairs

In short, he was a modern Jew in the best sense of the word.
New thinking is required to manage these massive and systemic changes, as well as the integration of giants like China and India into the modern world.
Humans are born with the capacity to be moral, but it is a limited capacity which is ill equipped to deal with the ethical complexities of the modern world.
Of course, no one simple change will eliminate the huge bias towards deficit spending in most modern political systems.
And some modern autocrats, such as Robert Mugabe, have been bolstered by their credentials as national freedom fighters.
Marxism appealed to Chinese intellectuals, because it was bookish, introduced a modern moral orthodoxy, and was based, like Confucianism, on a promise of perfect harmony.
There have been two eras since World War II when policymakers - American policymakers, at least - believed that they had solved the riddle of the business cycle and had learned how to manage a modern industrial or post-industrial economy.
This has given new strength to those who want Turkey to develop in another direction, towards a more Islamic society instead of a modern secular state.
Neither the Soviet experience in Afghanistan in the 1980's nor NATO's today vindicates the claim that troop numbers are what matter most on the modern battlefield.
Consider one of the miracles of the modern age - the personal computer.
And the German team has put on a wonderful display of heart warming and modern offensive soccer (which nobody could have expected!).
That is true of both monetary and fiscal policy - the two mainstays of modern countercyclical stabilization.
Many will never finish even primary school, or be able to play an effective role in modern society.
Are we really supposed to admire and love modern monarchies, such as the British House of Windsor, even more so today, just because some new princess has been plucked from the middle class?
What matters is their output of modern industrial goods (and services), which can expand without limit as long as domestic demand expands simultaneously.
Profound reform of the welfare state and building a modern tax administration system requires time.
The social changes now underway threaten their way of life, which includes discrimination against women and a ban on modern education.
Modern terrorism is too destructive to be tolerated, much less supported.
The ascendency of the mandarins is a legacy of Japan's unique historical development dating back to its early modern period.
The Internet, one of the great inventions of the modern Western world, has shown itself to be a weapon that can be used to incite and train those who wish to cause harm to that world.
Until recently, few believed that Africa, too, could become a center for modern manufacturing.
Moreover, as the terrorist attacks on America of 2001 showed, weapons as basic as box-cutters can become weapons of mass destruction if they are used to exploit the vulnerabilities of modern, global life.

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