Over the last 20 years St Petersburg has become a popular tourist destination, with a wealth of luxury hotels and top restaurants as well as a sense of modern urbanity.
The show yields an immersive sense of early modern art as a tidal wave of hot-and-bothered genius.
The sense of entitlement among modern consumers combined with years of expected perfection created the perfect storm of discontent.
Training in one area may not help you in another, except in the most general sense of understanding how the method of modern science works.
Many of Mr Freedman's protagonists are caught between Americanness, which threatens their identity as Jews, and orthodoxy, which threatens their sense of themselves as modern-minded Americans.
Mr. Sonnenfeld emphasized the matter of choice during a lunchtime show-and-tell that included photographs of a modern 3-D camera modern in the sense of all the things it can do, but Rube Goldberg-retro in the sense of an enormous, and enormously cumbersome, rig with ancillary gizmos piled atop gizmos like some Watts Tower of digital power.
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This explains much of the modern computer experience, especially the growing sense of powerlessness many people feel before the machine.
The sense of subaquatic seclusion is momentarily disturbed with the arrival of a modern train.
The challenge in understanding the modern consumer is making sense of the multiple sources of evidence.
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Theofanidis conjures Bach's sense of harmony and percolating energy to make his modern day musical points.
But in a larger sense, the rally marked the awakening of a modern political consciousness in China.
In this sense alone, modern America confronts a crisis of major proportions in the last decades of the twentieth century.
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Another approach has been to argue that originalism, so far from being original, in the sense of being the same age as those four sheets of parchment in the National Archives, is quite modern.
Consider this: the modern smartphone is a personal computer in every sense of the word.
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As for the fact that we hear the words in public more than we used to, I suggest we bring our sense of "dirty" into line with the rest of our modern come-as-you-are American spirits.
Sensor fusion enables the sense of depth available in 3D modeling, which is used for all modern design and construction, as well as the magic of special effects in movies.
As with Katrina, there is a back story for government's dysfunction: It's a long saga involving the fervent renunciation of the idea of financial regulation, bought-and-paid-for tax favors, confusion about how globalization affects money markets, a general ignorance about the modern financial world and a stunning lack of common sense.
Her writing is at its best when it is honest and vulnerable rather than hectoring and prescriptive: when she admits, for example, that even she feels the loneliness of modern society at times, and yearns for the sense of belonging that life in the clan however cruel and dysfunctional can still provide.
Likewise, anyone familiar with east Fife's roads will know that the traffic in and out of Diageo's colossal bottling plant in Leven makes little sense in modern logistics, when the company is trying to slash its carbon output.
Tokyo architect Hideyuki Nakayama said the home, while aesthetically modern in every sense, is true to the spirit and philosophy of old Kyoto homes, which integrated public and private space seamlessly in a way that created a sense of flow.
To bend a term that comes to us courtesy of Iraq's Saddam Hussein (surely a candidate for the top 10 of any world list of the powerful and nasty), 1975 was the mother of all years -- the one that in a sense gave birth to modern Asia.
This has increased the sense that a constitution that places the British monarch at its centre no longer reflects the realities of modern Australia.
On the one hand, there is a sure sense of political and economic superiority, for having arrived, as they see it, at a more modern, less centralised and less rule-bound way of doing things.
Modern, unequal societies are hugely stressful because they violate people's hard-wired sense of fairness.
Yet in a sense, the technology pioneered by Samuel Morse has been reborn with a modern twist, in the form of text messages sent between mobile phones.
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