11.   Modern science and modern sensibilities have overtaken the tradition of the unknowns.

12.   Ms. Grigson has produced bright, fresh dishes with a modern sensibility that illustrate why London is one of the hottest eating towns in the world.

13.   Modern sensibilities are brought to bear on the events of the past.

14.   Now, however, some Americans find her books dated, and her frank distate toward the local Indians is jarring to modern sensibilities.

15.   She is the Victorian Lady With No Name, a woman with a modern sensibility trapped in the wrong century.

16.   The actress, unfortunately, has too modern a sensibility for the role.

17.   The ankle-length ones have a modern medieval sensibility, with high, vampirelike collars or hoods and embroidered knot-in-hole closures.

18.   The child Cosette grows up to be Claire Danes, who brings a modern sensibility to her performance.

19.   The idea that Vermeer was literally transcribing what he saw through a camera obscura, though, is vaguely disturbing to a modern sensibility.

20.   The notion that history is viewed through a prism that reveals as much about the prejudices of its writers as its subject is ingrained in the modern sensibility.