Moderns in a sentence

And for us liberalized moderns, for that reason, the problem of returning to the local is great.

Finally, in most instances, the greater focus belongs on the giver than what is given, a perspective many moderns likewise seem to have askew.

Why does this artist mean so much to us moderns?

He ably chronicles the numerous “substitutes,” as he calls them, that we late moderns turn to—drugs of all sorts, among them—to find happiness divorced from competence and responsibility.

Local residents will get the chance to see them up close during their “Month of Moderns” concerts at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill.

After a few hundred years of Livy being studied by the youth of every Western population, moderns have developed their own views of Livy and his place in the ancient world, which were not current in ancient times.

Cicero called these local innovators neoteroi (νεώτεροι) or 'moderns' (in Latin poetae novi or ' new poets '), in that they cast off the heroic model handed down from Ennius in order to strike new ground and ring a contemporary note.

Frederick E. Greenspahn says that "Most moderns accept the common sequence of names as reflecting birth order and understand 10:21 as describing Shem as Japheth's older brother.

In the hindsight given to moderns Pytheas, in relying on observation in the field, appears more scientific than Strabo, who discounted the findings of others merely because of their strangeness to him.

It appears surprising to moderns that so important a matter might be settled by one and his friends falsely swearing an oath.

Masonic Lodge Lodge in Palazzo Roffia, Florence set out for French (Moderns) ritual main The Masonic Lodge is the basic organisational unit of Freemasonry.

Moderns fault Carthage for failure "to bind her subjects to herself, as Rome did" her Italians.

Moderns have not offered as positive an assessment.

Moreover, says Strabo, none of the other authors mention Thule, a fact which he uses to discredit Pytheas, but which to moderns indicates Pytheas was the first explorer to arrive there and tell of it.

The alumen of the ancients then, was not always the same as the alum of the moderns.

These "moderns" were discarding the old laws of composition and experimenting with new forms, harmonies and rhythms, and including the use of jazz and quarter-tone music.

These two Grand Lodges vied for supremacy until the Moderns promised to return to the ancient ritual.