Noun
the circumstances and ideas of the present age
Source: WordNetOne of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. Kurt Vonnegut
The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times. Ulysses S. Grant
It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called in any sense privileged, it has shown the largest and most consistent concern for the well-being of the classes which lie below it in the social scale. Richard Hofstadter
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' Norman Ralph Augustine
The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion. Friedrich Hayek
Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is. Howard Zinn