Crossword-Solution: MODERNS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MODERNS | anagram | ENDORMS |
We have 11 clues for the answer “MODERNS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Contemporary people | 1 answer |
| Contemporary persons | 1 answer |
| Folks not living in the past | 1 answer |
| Hemingway and Stein, literarily | 1 answer |
| Neoterics | 1 answer |
| PEOPLE living today | 1 answer |
| PRESENT-day people | 1 answer |
| Up-to-daters. | 1 answer |
| Up-to-the-minute men. | 1 answer |
| Hippies? | 3 answers |
| Contemporaries | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MODERNS (5)
Plato among the Greeks, like Bacon among the moderns, was the first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them always distinguished the bare outline or form from the substance of truth; and both of them had to be content with an abstraction of science which was not yet realized.
The two great principles of Jesus: love of God--in a word absolute perfection--and love of one’s neighbour, that is to say, love of all men without distinction, have been preached by all the sages of the world--Krishna, Buddha, Lao-tse, Confucius, Socrates, Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and among the moderns, Rousseau, Pascal, Kant, Emerson, Channing, and many others.
Among denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects; as, ½He fell among thieves.¸ ½Blessed art thou among women.¸ Hence, we say, among the moderns, among the ancients, among the thickest of trees, among these considerations, among the reasons I have to offer.
The forgotten past rubbed flanks with the present--while Tom Billings, modern of the moderns, passed in the garb of pre-Glacial man, and before him trotted a creature of a breed scarce sixty years old.
This quarrel first began, as I have heard it affirmed by an old dweller in the neighbourhood, about a small spot of ground, lying and being upon one of the two tops of the hill Parnassus; the highest and largest of which had, it seems, been time out of mind in quiet possession of certain tenants, called the Ancients; and the other was held by the Moderns.
Quotes with MODERNS (3)
I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been: "It was God's will that I should." And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, "In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.
The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less imply that beyond the dark void lies immortality. But for the ancients that ‘black hole’ is infinity itself; their dreams loom and vanish against a background of immutable ebony. No crying out, no convulsions — nothing but the fixity of the pensive gaze. With the gods gone, and Christ not yet come, there was a unique moment, from Cicero to Marcus Aurelius, when man…
For moderns - for us - there is something illicit, it seems, about wasted time, the empty hours of contemplation when a thought unfurls, figures of speech budding and blossoming, articulation drifting like spent petals onto the dark table we all once gathered around to talk and talk, letting time get the better of us. _Just taking our time_, as we say. That is, letting time take us." Can you say," I once inquired of a sixty-year old cloistered nun who had lived (vibrantly, it…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1964–2006).