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“I like the aesthetics of it, I like the modernness of it, yet it has the quality of those boat barns and it has the softness of the wood,” said Jones, 81.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2023

And what makes this exclusiveness the more repulsive is its modernness.

From The Sympathy of Religions by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

With all his fervid humanity and deeply ingrained modernness, Whitman has the virtues of the primal and the savage.

From Whitman A Study by Burroughs, John

But the first act was not half over before the extreme modernness of the play forced itself upon you.

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold

There is an irresistible charm in the freshness, the vividness, the extreme modernness of this little tale.

From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth