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They (akh right bros) are very anti-Western and anti-liberal, anti-modernity, anti-consumerism, materialism, is what they claim. But in reality … they are on the platforms that are the creation of all of those things. – Javad Hashmi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I mean different tennis. Taking into consideration what was better back in the 1970s and the 80s and also bringing some modernity, i'm excited to showcase that and to see if this is much more attractive to the younger generation. – Patrick Mouratoglou	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We're talking about a group of people who live in a relatively remote part of the world who have contact with modernity but pretty limited. – Bryan Gibson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
on modern man, modernity, and technotyranny, I say this:-hooked on technology. can't discern myth from reality, loses his identity, yearns for a state of ideality. one thing he knows, is that no matter how older he grows, he sees this as just a delusion- he has no solution, that's why there is so much confusion. – RAS CARDO REGGAE	added by anonymous 4 years ago
The focus of the dress is the graphic open bateau neckline that gracefully frames the shoulders and emphasizes the slender sculpted waist, the lines of the dress extend toward the back where the train flows in soft round folds cushioned by an underskirt in triple silk organza. The slim three-quarter sleeves add a note of refined modernity. – Kensington Palace	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Life, from birth to death, happens on the streets, and there is also this fabulous mix of tradition and modernity, European influence and Asian character. – Puig Saura	Found on CNN 7 years ago
ISIS is bridging the gap between modernity and its outdated theocratic vision, making its ideology easier for young recruits to accept and embrace, it's hard to imagine Usama Bin Laden making a music video like this and that's another reason that The Islamic State is shaping the future of jihad, not Al Qaeda. – Ryan Mauro	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We're challenged by the opposite of modernity, which is a barbaric mediaevalism, early mediaevalism, primitive, savage, murderous, that comes from the two sources of militant Islam, europe should support Israel - not pressure Israel, not attack Israel, but support Israel, which is the only real shield that Europe and the Middle East have against extremist Islam, which is surging. – Donald Tusk	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Based solely on American menswear history, I would say it's defined by a mix of modernity and functionality. And, of course, business savvy. – Anders Christian Madsen	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure. – Paul de Man	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements. – Paul de Man	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. – Charles Baudelaire	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity. – G Gaia	added by anonymous 14 years ago

They (akh right bros) are very anti-Western and anti-liberal, anti-modernity, anti-consumerism, materialism, is what they claim. But in reality … they are on the platforms that are the creation of all of those things.

– Javad Hashmi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I mean different tennis. Taking into consideration what was better back in the 1970s and the 80s and also bringing some modernity, i'm excited to showcase that and to see if this is much more attractive to the younger generation.

– Patrick Mouratoglou

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We're talking about a group of people who live in a relatively remote part of the world who have contact with modernity but pretty limited.

– Bryan Gibson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

on modern man, modernity, and technotyranny, I say this:-hooked on technology. can't discern myth from reality, loses his identity, yearns for a state of ideality. one thing he knows, is that no matter how older he grows, he sees this as just a delusion- he has no solution, that's why there is so much confusion.

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

The focus of the dress is the graphic open bateau neckline that gracefully frames the shoulders and emphasizes the slender sculpted waist, the lines of the dress extend toward the back where the train flows in soft round folds cushioned by an underskirt in triple silk organza. The slim three-quarter sleeves add a note of refined modernity.

– Kensington Palace

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Life, from birth to death, happens on the streets, and there is also this fabulous mix of tradition and modernity, European influence and Asian character.

– Puig Saura

Found on CNN
7 years ago

ISIS is bridging the gap between modernity and its outdated theocratic vision, making its ideology easier for young recruits to accept and embrace, it's hard to imagine Usama Bin Laden making a music video like this and that's another reason that The Islamic State is shaping the future of jihad, not Al Qaeda.

– Ryan Mauro

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We're challenged by the opposite of modernity, which is a barbaric mediaevalism, early mediaevalism, primitive, savage, murderous, that comes from the two sources of militant Islam, europe should support Israel - not pressure Israel, not attack Israel, but support Israel, which is the only real shield that Europe and the Middle East have against extremist Islam, which is surging.

– Donald Tusk

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Based solely on American menswear history, I would say it's defined by a mix of modernity and functionality. And, of course, business savvy.

– Anders Christian Madsen

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

– Paul de Man

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

– Paul de Man

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

– Charles Baudelaire

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity.

– G Gaia

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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