“I truly do believe that modernism trumps the traditional patriarchy because it is far more conducive to human happiness.”

“Wright was committed to the practice of modern realism and radical modernism.”

“In other words, modernity has become critical of modernism and of its own utopian absolutism.”

“The brothers share both a strong connection to Wolof tradition and an affinity for modernity.”

“Mimi proposes a spirited quick-wittedness as an inventive, ethical response to the dilemmas posed by black and white encounters within modernity.”

“In other words, modernity has become critical of modernism and of its own utopian absolutism.”

“The leader was regarded by many as an uppity modern.”

“In contrast to modernists and traditionalists, some young designers take modernist principles as only a starting point for their ideas.”

“Dean has been a modernizer and innovator, and he should be embraced for it.”

“In 1924, the local Pashtuns rose up against King Amanullah, a modernizer who sought to emancipate Afghan women.”

“For this, as well as for proposing that legislators be elected, Marsilius ranks as an important modernizer.”

“Sheikh Mo, who fancies himself a prophet of modernisation, likes to impress visitors with clever proverbs and heavy aphorisms.”

“Now the bosses have the audacity to try to deskill the workers at the Central, and to run down factories in the name of modernisation.”

“The problem is that the modernisation was a Westernisation imposed from above.”

“A long-time supporter of devolution while an economic moderniser, he provides unsentimental analysis of heavy industry's demise.”

“Lord George realised the bank had to be demystified if it was to become a place of real seriousness. Yet he was also less than a moderniser.”

“Classed by some as a moderniser of a strict South American church, he is still conservative and an opponent of such ideas as gay marriage.”

“Much of the nation's heritage has been destroyed in the name of modernization.”

“So the reader must resort to the apparatus and notes to figure out what interpretation is driving a given modernization choice.”

“In short, the modernization of economic structures leads to a rise, rather than a decline, in archaic attitudes of mind.”

“The real origin of all these flags is severely obfuscated by myth and legend, in spite of its relative modernness and high popularity.”

“As noted above, creationists do not have a really satisfactory explanation for the increasing modernness of fossils.”

“The unorthodox phrasing abstracts the original material and gives the composition an edgy modernness.”

“Makes it possible to contemplate modernizations that offer a potential for sufficient yield to justify the loan.”

“Several plant modernizations are taking place, including a plant expansion project by Alcan and a new Alcoa plant in Deschambault.”

“While carrying out these modernizations, the branch also launched a new initiative to reduce its environmental footprint.”

“Religion in the former sense is a cement for communal harmony, and not otherwise as some modernists and secularists believe.”

“That contrast, at least, is not a fault, but an achievement, as profound as any to be heard in later moderns and modernists.”

“When modernists eventually revolted against academic history painting, they did not uniformly abandon this august dream.”

“He closes by delineating the spatializing of contemporary and future modernities.”

“They cover transnational and border-zone modernities, nation-states and citizenship, and cultural and moral orientations.”

“In Lost Modernities, Alexander Woodside explores east Asian political modernity over more than a millennium in the context of global history.”

“He vaguely pines for a return to metaphysics, and suggests that moderns have lost God.”

“His confessedly eclectic work was a temperate defence of the moderns in the debate between the ancients and the moderns.”

“To grasp this world in its fullness must lie beyond our capacities as moderns.”