Some portion of his hidden self, uncaught, unharnessed by anything in modern life, rose with a passionate rush of joy and made after them--something in him untamed as wind.
This vital essence of his personality, volatile as air and fierce as lightning, flashed outwards from its hidden prison where it lay choked and smothered by the weights and measures of modern life.
All memory of the casual realities of modern lifethat so distressed his soul, fled far away.
He possessed a full experience, and at times a keen judgment, of modern life; while underneath, all the time, lay the moving sea of curiously wild primitive instincts.
The hurry and invention of modern life were to him a fever and a torment.
Yes; there is really no end to the consolations that women find in modern life.
It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us.
Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.
To this fact is to be attributed in large part the restlessness, the thirst for novelty and excitement so characteristic of modern life.
The great mass of men in most of the social activities of modern life are no longer actors, but spectators.
The division of labor and all the vast organized economic interdependence of individuals and groups of individuals characteristic of modern life are a product of competition.
They are as true to modern life as to the age of Alexander.
Of the major poets, Matthew Arnold alone consistently urges the poet to flee from "the strange disease of modern life.
True, he urges him to fly from "the strange disease of modern life".
Owing to the growth of specialization in modern life, this argument, despite Carlyle, has not attained much popularity.
I will make the face of that girl the face of modern life, and he shall sit staring at it, seeing nothing.
There is no illusion, and no dreaming, in modern life.
Understood the tug of the towns, the call of money to money; grasped the destructive restlessness of modern life; the abysmal selfishness of people when you threaten their interests; the age-long apathy of those you want to help?
The thing typified all that was fast, insecure, and subcutaneously oily in modern life.
Letters--more's the pity--play a gigantic part in the economy of modern life.
Her technique, too, at least in farce, is masterful, and in her plays of modern life of other form adequate.
That she could master historical drama, as I have said, I must doubt, but that she need restrict herself so largely to farce and farce comedy in her plays of modern life, I do not for a moment believe.
These services are as indispensable to modern life as air or navigation.
To an onlooker he might have seemed but another of the wasted men of modern life, a drifter on the sea of things--but it was not so.
There is a big hidden something going on in modern life," he said, talking rapidly and excitedly.
In a way it rings true and strong above the hideous jangle of modern life.
If they thought of the town at all they regretted it mildly and passed it off as a necessity of modern life.
In the parable of the sower the third kind of soil is one which is very common in modern life.
Is not that a parable of many a modern life,--completely endowed with the instinct of action, but without the capacity to stop?
As far as possible such children should be kept from the strenuous competition at school in modern life.
How important this affection has become in modern life can be best appreciated from the fact that in Europe nearly one in four of those who die in the insane asylums are sufferers from paresis.
We need a coordination of all the forces that make for social amelioration in modern life to correct present false impressions.
They could not support the continuance of many of the common evils of modern life--the noise and dirt, the brutality of manners, the scamping of work, the rush for pleasure.
As we have tried to show, the best chance for the eliciting and the disciplining of these powers of hers, so as best to fit them for the struggle of modern life, is afforded by biology.
Busy Westerns, torn by the distractions and rapid movement of modern life, echo the sigh for repose which breathes in the word.
The predatory temperament does not lead itself to all the purposes of modern life, and more especially not to modern industry.
The largest manifestation of vicarious leisure in modern life is made up of what are called domestic duties.
But it persists with great tenacity as a commonplace preconception even in modern life, as is shown, for instance, by our habitual aversion to menial employments.
From these elementary, if somewhat technical considerations, we turn to the change which experience itself has undergone in the passage from ancient and medieval to modern life.
So potentiality never means, as in modern life, the possibility of novelty, of invention, of radical deviation, but only that principle in virtue of which the acorn becomes the oak.
Let us endeavor to make the College of this city worthy of the city and of the state; let us cast aside the trammels of mediæval ignorance, and supply to the pupils of the College "the culture demanded by modern life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modern life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
