But modernity has its limits.

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But the infrastructure of modernity, according to the new view in vogue among Japanese intellectuals, was already there.

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Mr. Kiarostami neither sentimentalizes tradition nor glorifies modernity, but by the conclusion, when a bone floats down a river while goats graze amid flowers, wisdom accompanies the shock of poetry.

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Intellectually, he may be on the side of modernity, but emotionally and aesthetically he is seduced by the idea of history as a natural cycle which is both forever changing and always the same.

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The real threat is not modernity, but globalisation.

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But there are challenges - modernity, commerce, and the politics of Kenya and neighbouring countries - all lapping at the shores of this island city.

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The Millennium Dome, further down the river in Greenwich, was also meant to create a feeling of excitement and modernity but is now widely acknowledged to be a turkey.

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But, though it may have seemed the epitome of modernity 40 years ago, it is now a rusting hulk.

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We're still in the early stages of planning, but, for example, we are scheduling 'Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity, ' which will combine entertainment with history, for a summer audience.

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It is sometimes described as post modernity, as a way of saying not so much what it is, but what it is not.

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