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In the search for modernity, an original message often gets left behind.
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The adventurous modernity of the room in which he waited intensified that.
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Centuries neither start nor stop punctually, and modernity had a delayed birth.
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One of them had lived in Paris, and was steeped in modernity.
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It surprised the easterners, this evidence of modernity in a pioneer world.
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But, once in dishonest hands, antiquity and authenticity replace modernism and imitation.
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Kind of as if modernism never happened, and so intelligent and undeceived.
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When you get to be 103, modernism is a very wide concept.
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Meanwhile, modernism was challenging the traditional notions of art, music and literature.
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Her references have a new contemporaneity: Hopper's work is about as old as it gets.
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SF is the literature most attuned to contemporaneity's harsh music and so remains the best predictor of our collective future.
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Each is dashed with the most superficial gloss of technological contemporaneity, right down to the inevitable "Silicon" prefix.
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Such are likeness and unlikeness in quality, quantity, or form; succession and contemporaneity; contiguity and distance; cause and effect; motion and rest.
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And, indeed, so long as relative age only is spoken of, correspondence in succession IS correspondence in age; it is RELATIVE contemporaneity.
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I think, then, that the contemporaneousness of the evidence is sufficiently established.
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I'll ease his mind by telling him the subject lacks contemporaneousness.
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There is an air of contemporaneousness about everything.
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There were oil heaters, bookshelves and tables, chairs and cabinets, and a desk piled high with papers of varying antiquity and contemporaneousness.
Usage of modernness in English
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Other illustrations of the modernness of Lanier's scholarly work are easy to cite.
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A still more noteworthy characteristic of Lanier's scholarship is the modernness of his work.
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I am struck, in reading him, with the extreme modernness of his style and spirit.
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The modernness of the Universal first man I ever knew who was constantly smoking cigarettes.'
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The modernness of all good books seems to give me an existence as wide as man.
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Lanier's modernness of mind has already been illustrated in his attitude to music and to scholarship.
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This is an anomalous feature and suggests modernness.
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There is an irresistible charm in the freshness, the vividness, the extreme modernness of this little tale.
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Dr. Muir(2) says that the hymn "has every character of modernness both in its diction and ideas".
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He seeks this thing which we may call modernness, for no better word to express the idea presents itself.
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The dramatic force, the tender passionate insight, the fearless modernness with which the story was told, made it almost unbearable.
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Where this work is done best, it shows, in both the elementary and high schools, balanced understanding and complete modernness.
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Moreover, she resents modernness of every kind, including the steam-engine, the electric telegraph, the continent of North America, and myself.
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He was a passionate lover of mountains, with that modern spirit which finds in them man's best refuge from modernness.
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Where the teaching is at its best in both the elementary and high schools of Cleveland, the work exhibits balanced understanding and complete modernness.
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The modernness or antiquity of an action, therefore, has nothing to do with its fitness for poetical representation; this depends upon its inherent qualities.