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Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.

Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again.

Lana del Rey is not bad at all. She looks very much like a modern-time singer. In her photos she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants? She's not alone with implants.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.

Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?

Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

London is a modern Babylon.

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

'Love' has that Kubrick tonality to it, but this is not a Stanley Kubrick movie - there will never be another. At the same time, 'Love' has a modern feel. For example: In one scene, these astronauts go through a wormhole sequence, and you feel like you're being slapped around inside your head by a sonic boom.

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

Many people don't know that you don't spend 10 minutes without using a satellite. Or that agriculture is managed from space. Banking, too. The space program is like our airports and highways. It's not a luxury. It's part of the fabric of the modern world.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

Maybe the most interesting find in my research is that it is clear that Ronald Reagan, among all modern presidents, plainly rediscovered the founders.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the dangers of the infinite.

Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarely spoken of and almost never seen, except privately by women.

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

Mini dresses that have an over skirt of tulle makes it traditional and modern at the same time.

Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.

Modern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.

Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.

Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval.

Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.

Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.

Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding of men and women and the life they live and create.

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

Modern science is predicated on "truths" verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.

Modern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the gospel

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised.

Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.

Modern loneliness is an extraverted loneliness, in which the person is surrounded by many people and partakes of much communication but feels unrecognized and more alone and, although connected technically, isolated and even estranged emotionally.

Modern man is a hard-working human.

Modern man is sick because he is not whole.

Modern money is almost altogether credit money.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Modern physics has... revealed that every sub-atomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction.

Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.

Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.