(a.) Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice.
(a.) New and common; trite; commonplace.
(n.) A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(2) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
(3) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
(4) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(5) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
(6) Although runaway pacemaker is a rare complication in modern pacemakers, but it still exists.
(7) We come to see that some traditions keep us grounded, but that, in our modern world, other traditions set us back.” Female genital mutilation (FGM) affects more than 130 million girls and women around the world.
(8) But when the city's Gallery of Modern Art opened in 1998, it totally – and scandalously – ignored the new wave of Glasgow artists.
(9) Modern art was interpreted in the catalogue as a conspiracy by Russian Bolsheviks and Jewish dealers to destroy European culture.
(10) It has been shown that modern premedication techniques do not prevent the activation of the sympathoadrenal system and the enhanced synthesis of cyclic nucleotides and prostaglandin-like compounds in response to preoperative stress.
(11) The award for nonfiction went to New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos for his book on modern China, Age of Ambition .
(12) Our results were consistent with the modern anesthesia standard in closed circuit t.i.
(13) We try to determinate, that systems theory has to be introduced into modern medicine.
(14) The HindIII restriction patterns of 3 of the ancestral S. enteritidis plasmids were identical to the modern 38 MDa plasmid, while all contained identical bands of 3.5, 2.7 and 1.9 kb.
(15) When she speaks, it is in a quiet, clear voice that is middle-class but also flat and London-inflected enough to seem almost classless: it is the voice of the modern southern English professional.
(16) Much more recently, use of modern CT ("computed tomography") scanning equipment on the London Archaeopteryx's skull has enabled scientists to reconstruct the whole of its bony brain case - and so model the structure of the brain itself.
(17) Although classifications initially paralleled the staging of pelvic malignancies, more modern systems follow the natural progression of this pathologic process.
(18) Audiences were disappointed that the love scenes between Taylor and Burton that had been the talk of modern Rome were not repeated with so much passion in those of ancient Rome.
(19) Antimicrobiologic chemotherapy is a cornerstone in the modern concept of treatment of sepsis.
(20) It lies in retrofitting old cities to modern demands.
Modish
Definition:
(a.) According to the mode, or customary manner; conformed to the fashion; fashionable; hence, conventional; as, a modish dress; a modish feast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similarly literary and pensive was Clouds of Sils Maria , in which France's Olivier Assayas combined some modish themes — the internet, celebrity gossip, superhero movies — with some hoarier themes regarding the theatre-cinema divide, ageing and female rivalry.
(2) Dalgliesh is a frustrated poet, a graduate capable of the sort of introspection that, for the last three books, has been offset by the more modish preoccupations of kate Miskin.
(3) By his later years, Judt's adherence to scholarly standards, along with his contempt for charlatans such as Louis Althusser and for academic fashion, made him seem a conservative figure to more modish colleagues.
(4) More dated now than its hard-boiled lustre is the movie’s equal and opposite involvement in modish early 80s dreams; the soundtrack by Vangelis was up-to-the-minute, while the replicants dress like extras in a Billy Idol video, a post-punk, synth-pop costume party.
(5) 479-481 Lisburn Road (028-9066 5655, rocketandrelish.com ) Grub Grub With its generically funky, chunky modish design and its neat green and white colour scheme, you could easily mistake this takeaway cafe for a slick chain, and walk on by.
(6) In the late 20s, Morell had grown a thriving private practice in Berlin, his reputation built on the modish vitamin injections he liked to give his patients.
(7) The queue is not for a modish nightclub but for a restaurant.
(8) He was impressed by the part of Ed Miliband's conference speech about business "predators", but he doesn't have this modish interest in the evils of business, big or small.
(9) President François Hollande gives election addresses daubed in the tricolour, while even modish Podemos rallies fizz with a patriotic determination.
(10) The powerful sense of isolation a bewildered 21st century idiot attempts to stave off by bragging about his or her witless exploits on social networks, accompanying each boast with a modish hashtag.
(11) And that's because I thought I should do a bit of modish, spurious social anthropology on our trade.
(12) • 16 Parliament St, porterhousebrewco.com , Oyster Stout €4.50 Oskars, Waterford The outside of this bar may not dazzle you but it's a friendly place to drink – with modish striped banquettes, a curved (and rare) outdoor seating area and a den with games and beanbags for the kids.
(13) Perhaps it is only a matter of time before Mary Berry , a woman with decades of baking expertise under her modish little Wallis belt, erupts in a similar boiling rage at the blithe attitudes held by some contestants towards convention.
(14) The space itself is a huge, dimly lit bar-restaurant, modishly decked out: not least with moody, black-and-white images shot by Christopher Martin along the route that the Giro d’Italia took when it visited Northern Ireland in 2014.
(15) Her exclamation indicates that the Eltons are behaving in an unusual, perhaps modish, manner.
(16) Today the most modish explanation of the king's maladies is Kell's disease.