Lanier's modernness of mind has already been illustrated in his attitude to music and to scholarship.
A still more noteworthy characteristic of Lanier's scholarship is the modernness of his work.
Other illustrations of themodernness of Lanier's scholarly work are easy to cite.
There is an irresistible charm in the freshness, the vividness, the extreme modernness of this little tale.
The same instinct of modernness both in the spirituality of the torment and in the minuteness of its description displays itself a little farther on in the curse of Prometheus.
Perhaps we could come upon no clearer proof of that modernness of personality which I have been advocating than this very fact of our complete ignorance as to the physical person of Christ.
Gyp is only one of a number of genuine creations in animal character which show the modernness of George Eliot and Charles Dickens, and make them especially dear.
As one opens the book, a powerful note of modernness in the drama, as opposed to the drama of Aeschylus, strikes us at the outset in the number of the actors.
This story of Janet's Repentance offers us, by the way, a strong note of modernness as between George Eliot and Shakspeare.
There was a modernness for every ancient painter; most of the beautiful portraits which remain to us from earlier times are dressed in the costumes of their times.
The dramatic force, the tender passionate insight, the fearless modernness with which the story was told, made it almost unbearable.
Except for a certain modernness of style, Flandrin might have lived and worked with the original architect, for his plan is that so often seen in the works of the Mediævalists, as for instance in the Biblia Pauperum.
These are all explained minutely in the essay of Roth, whose clear demonstration of the modernness of the ritual, as compared with the antiquity of the hymn should be read complete.
I am struck, in reading him, with the extreme modernness of his style and spirit.
This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything shortlived or local, but abode by real and abiding traits.
By the strong touch of modernness which these poets and the best of their followers introduced into their work, they have given the vivification required.
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