Sentences with phrase «modern marvels such»

LINDA FISHER is the chief sustainability officer at DuPont, one of America's oldest chemical companies and the source of modern marvels such as neoprene, Teflon, and Lycra.

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At this point, most grandparents have learned to use such marvels of the modern world as laptops, smartphones and even social media, right?

Indeed, most cultures in human history have generated no such marvel as the modern scientific movement, and even in our own culture, scientifically oriented as it is supposed to be, most people accept the benefits of technology and use the vocabulary of science but do not in fact choose to abide by the disciplines that alone make scientific productivity possible.

and on «modern technological society,» he displayed the restless curiosity and joie de vivre that have made his work — painting, drawing, and sculpture, the latter now showing in New York for the first time — such a marvel.

I still marvel that man can inhabit the sky in this way, and wonder about the modern consequences of technology that relocates people on disparate sides of the planet in such a (relatively speaking) short period of time.

Beijing is a unique reflection of the many changing facets of contemporary Chinese culture, where ancient cultural sites such as the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven vie for space alongside modern marvels.

Tom, I believe in the Laws of Physics and most of what is in the GCMs — I think they are a marvel of modern computing (& I used to do computer modeling for a living)-- just that they MAY have mistakes in them or MAY be missing pieces such as convective feedback -LRB-?)