"Teen Angel" maps out a territory of peculiarly modern adolescence.

The result is a generally tortured and peculiarly modern form of self-understanding: But does not our philosophy then turn into tragedy?

Snobbery, he contends, is a peculiarly modern disease: a byproduct of democracy.

What seemed to unite the six works the group played was the sense that each was a response to a peculiarly modern predicament.

Wagner's story seems peculiarly modern: with the loss of tradition and faith, ritual becomes empty gesture.

The schism is also a peculiarly modern phenomenon.

The American Protestants may have intended to go back to the "fundamentals," but they did so in a peculiarly modern way.

Q. In one sense, the disorder sounds peculiarly modern, a product of our appearance-obsessed media age.

In his impenetrable way, he is probably a hero or saint of some peculiarly modern kind.

Learning that he had been assigned choice seats down front, he was seized by a peculiarly modern form of stage fright.