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modernity
«Its origins are ancient but it burgeons with brash modernity, and it lounges upon its delectable shore, halfway between the Israelis and the Syrians, in a posture that no such city, at such a latitude, in such a moment of history, has any reasonable excuse for assuming.»
Author: Jan Morris
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brash, burgeon, burgeoning, burgeons, delectable, Israeli, Israelis, latitude, latitudes, lounge, lounging, modernity
«[The] council not only sanctioned reform, it accelerated it. What this meant was that Catholics tried to solve the riddle of religion and modernity overnight.»
Author: Jay P. Dolan
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Religion
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accelerate, accelerated, Catholics, council, modernity, riddle, sanctioned, The Council
«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.»
«The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.»
«Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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contingent, contingent on, fleeting, immovable, modernity, One half, transient