WordNet
n. the circumstances and ideas of the present age; "behind the times"; "in times like these" [syn: times, modern times, present time, contemporary world]
Wikipedia
Modern World or The Modern World may refer to:
- Modernity, a popular academic term.
- The modern era, the age in which people today now live.
- Modern World, a song by Wolf Parade from their 2005 album Apologies to the Queen Mary
Usage examples of "modern world".
In short, I fail to see why this story of Plato, told as history, derived from the Egyptians, a people who, it is known, preserved most ancient records, and who were able to trace their existence back to a vast antiquity, should have been contemptuously set aside as a fable by Greeks, Romans, and the modern world.
There was profound ambivalence about the new modern world that was being ushered into being.
The modern world had begun with the Age of Submolecular Control, which was followed by the present age of Direct Control.
In the modern world, it's a much more serious transgression to shoot a tiger than to shoot your parents.
He even knew, in moments of great clarity, that it would not have been so had he not been who he was, that his disability didn't lie in what had happened to him at all, but in his flawed nature, that not everyone, perhaps no one but he, would have ended up thus becalmed after being touched only by Sylvie as though in passing-- what a stupid and antique disease that was, and one that had been all but eliminated from the modern world, he resented deeply at times that he should be, apparently, the last victim of it and thus excluded, as though by some rule of common hygiene, from the broad banquet that the City, even in decline, could still show.
Hannant was right: Pythagoras couldn't face the greater knowledge of the modern world, the fact that science had outdistanced him.
My religion is a very old one, and much of it seems to make little sense in our modern world.