Mythology was not about theology, in the modern sense, but about human experience.
Arafat was unable to build a completely sovereign state in the modern sense and departed from this world, which was extremely regrettable.
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In truth, Fellowes is a wildly insightful writer about human emotion whose understanding of what makes people do and feel as they do brings up Somerset Maugham in a distant sense, and Jay McInerney in a more modern sense.
"Oswald is more modern in a sense, because he's a little bit less well-behaved, a little bit quicker to anger, a little bit, dare I say, edgier, " he said.
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.
The challenge in understanding the modern consumer is making sense of the multiple sources of evidence.
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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.
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.
The show yields an immersive sense of early modern art as a tidal wave of hot-and-bothered genius.
In this sense alone, modern America confronts a crisis of major proportions in the last decades of the twentieth century.
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The sense of entitlement among modern consumers combined with years of expected perfection created the perfect storm of discontent.
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.
While all countries experience leadership changes that can be described as generational in one sense or another, modern Chinese history has been so eventful as to have created generations that, as a group, share distinct characteristics and are markedly different from their forebearers in their historical, educational and career experiences.
This explains much of the modern computer experience, especially the growing sense of powerlessness many people feel before the machine.
Consider this: the modern smartphone is a personal computer in every sense of the word.
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Today it looks classic, in much the same way that such masterpieces of midcentury modernism as, say, Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building or Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim long ago ceased to look "modern, " at least in the informal sense that most people have in mind when they use the word.
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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.
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.
Theofanidis conjures Bach's sense of harmony and percolating energy to make his modern day musical points.
In modern times, we mistakenly use the the word in a very limited sense to refer to electronic, digital, or mechanical tools because our thinking about technology is not very innovative.
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The sense of subaquatic seclusion is momentarily disturbed with the arrival of a modern train.
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.
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.
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.
Modern, unequal societies are hugely stressful because they violate people's hard-wired sense of fairness.
That still leaves one outstanding thorny question: whether the modern trend to stick private banks together with riskier investment banks and hedge funds still makes sense.
This has increased the sense that a constitution that places the British monarch at its centre no longer reflects the realities of modern Australia.
For the same reason, I believe, that even the Modern's exemplary exhibition fails to convey the actuality of his buildings -- there is no way to sense what they are really like until you see them or are in them.
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.
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.
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