Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.
It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!
The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying.
The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.
The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.
Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.
True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats; fats against carbs.
To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.
I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and that's about my only connection to the modern world.
I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.
First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.
Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a decisive value in itself.