What about adapting that language or making it palatable to modern ears?

The song was written as a satirical view of racism, but modern ears will probably find its lyrics offensive.

To modern ears, "descended into hell" is a notion both strange and evocative.

I couldn't detect how it would sound to modern ears.

The final gift strikes the modern ear as odd.

But to modern ears, the music-making just sounds blank.

No one did more to make "the repellent doctrines" of Christianity plausible to modern ears.

Such notions may sound, well, laughable to modern ears.

While Donovan has always seemed a bit naïve and hippy-trippy to modern ears, his records sound even better today.

The conversations in the Cooper books have a curious sound in our modern ears.