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The score contains some striking passages, but the pace is uneven; the orchestral writing tends to be overblown, and the mix of modally inflected harmony and Vaughan Williams-like themes lacks potency.

From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 2012

Really, according to Spinoza, extension is indivisible, though modally it is divisible.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

In the first place, it seems to distinguish the mind from its act, not modally, i. e., as a thing from its mode, but numerically, i. e., as one thing from another thing.

From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor