Carleton University is quintessentially modern.

Mr. Biden was regarded as especially vulnerable to the "authenticity" issue because he already had a reputation as a quintessentially modern candidate.

A new series of egg tempera paintings on 10-inch-square panels reflects a recent interest in Italian Medieval painting while projecting what might be construed as a quintessentially modern search for transcendence.

She suggested, "Being a spectator of calamities taking place in another country is a quintessentially modern experience."

A parallel tale, set in present-day Athens, records the creators' disagreement on the meaning of the story, thus setting in relief the foundational quest as a quintessentially modern adventure.

But these and similar movements, although many of them retain devoted followers and intellectual resources, have never become the quintessentially modern expressions of the religious impulse that was once predicted.

Freud's quintessentially modern theory of psychic reality as the key to mental life seems to have merged with the fashionable idea that all reality is a form of storytelling.

At just the moment Kierkegaard was emerging as the first quintessentially modern philosopher, Copenhagen was emerging as a quintessentially modern city.

Inexpensive screws are quintessentially modern.

His complex relationship to modernity makes this film as quintessentially modern as those by Antonioni and Godard which were its contemporaries.