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  • Magic has a spiritual element, and is considered very important and of value, and magicians have always been a little bit silly, so if you're going to portray a modern day magician, there's gotta be a little silliness.

  • Im obsessed with Michael Fassbender. Hes unbelievable. I think hes a modern day Brando. Every movie that hes done in the past couple years, I just died for him. Hes extremely fascinating.

  • I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach.

    Party   Modern  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.

  • It's modern-day slavery.

    Slavery  
    "Adrian Peterson expresses frustration on labor issues". Interview with Doug Farrar, sports.yahoo.com. March 15, 2011.
  • Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.

  • That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.

    Talking   Modern  
    "Ryan Kwanten: Kwanten Leap" by Brandon Voss, www.advocate.com. November 18, 2010.
  • When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to.

  • Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave me a way into something important happening in modern-day culture.

    Way  
    Source: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com
  • Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could hardly put the book down. . . .The writing is superb.

  • Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. In short, it's modern day slavery.

    Slavery  
  • I heard there were two local guys in town doing songs and comedy so I thought I'd take a look....they took my breath away...with their music, comedy, and showmanship.... 'Dakaboom'.. is the genuine article! Two voices in perfect harmony, and with joyful abandon and humor, they take you on a magical, musical, modern day vaudeville tour!! Ben McLain and Paul Peglar are headed for stardom. They are unique, they are original, and they are known as 'Dakaboom.' Don't miss 'em 'cause you're in for a treat!

  • Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing. They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality. They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures. -- from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius

    Reality  
  • Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist.

    Modern  
    Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr
  • I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics.

    Believe   Modern  
    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.

    Modern  
    "Adam Sandler, Adam Shankman, Russell Brand, Keri Russell and Matt Lopez Interview BEDTIME STORIES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 21, 2008.
  • Wonder is very necessary in life. When we're little kids, we're filled with wonder for the world - it's fascinating and miraculous. A lot of people lose that. They become cynical and jaded, especially in modern day society. Magic renews that wonder.

    People  
  • what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more at the zoo). it's that five miles out in the woods you can't buy anything.

    Bill McKibben (2014). “The Age of Missing Information”, p.124, Random House
  • Walking with someone through grief, or through the process of reconciliation, requires patience, presence, and a willingness to wander, to take the scenic route. But the modern-day church doesn't like to wander or wait. The modern-day church likes results. Convinced the gospel is a product we've got to sell to an increasingly shrinking market, we like our people to function as walking advertisements: happy, put-together, finished - proof that this Jesus stuff WORKS!

    Jesus   People  
    Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.208, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • I`ve been spending a fair amount of time in the recesses of white nationalist, white supremacist social media online areas, what called itself is the "alt right", which is sort of the euphemistic term they use for what is essentially modern day white supremacy. And they are some of [Donald]Trump - this has been reported from the beginning but they are very excited about [anti-Muslim] proposal.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • They are two very different people. It's almost a modern-day 'Odd Couple,' if I had to characterize it, with the two of them portraying pretty close to who they are, which is why it's a hybrid of a reality and a comedy show.

    Reality  
  • Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.

  • I stick closely to the structure of the myths. I may have some fun with the mythology by changing the environment to modern-day, but the structure of the myths, the monsters, the relationships of the gods - none of that is made up.

    Fun   May  
  • There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • It's modern day. It is modern day. Some of the cars are older but it is absolutely modern day. There are modern cars in it, modern people, modern clothes, modern talk. We wrote 'Valentine' to sort of pay tribute to all the old slasher movies that we grew up with and I think that we did that.

    Source: collider.com
  • Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

    "Interview with David Strathairn of The Whistleblower". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. July 21, 2011.
  • Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity. Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth.

    Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.85, Broadway Books
  • I consider myself a modern-day dad, where I still got rock'n'roll in me, but yet I take being a parent and relationships very seriously in life. I'm tired of the image of the father as a fat, beer-chugging, stupid guy. That image has to change. I'm changing it, baby, one city at a time.

    Father  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • We made four feature films with Sherwood Baptist. The wonderful thing was the church (members) volunteered. It was an awesome atmosphere of attitudes. The hard part was (that) all four of the first feature films we made take place in modern-day Albany, Georgia. We know that not all of our films going to be (set in) modern-day Albany, Georgia.

    Church  
    "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.
  • Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums.

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