How To Use Twenty-first In A Sentence
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Beijing is contending for the leadership of the twenty-first century.
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How likely is it that a twenty-first-century music giving priority to ‘new classical’ virtues will sit happily with forms of writing which retain ‘modernist’ perspectives on multivalence?
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I fancy it was delightless to the husband as to the wife - just turning her twenty-first year, and learning for the first time in her sheltered life the taste of privation.
Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,
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Her sapphire ring had been in such a box, her twenty-first birthday ring.
The Glasgow Girls
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About the twenty-first, weight generally in the left side, with pain; slight urine thick, muddy, and reddish; when allowed to stand, had no sediment; in other respects felt lighter; fever not gone; fauces painful from the commencement, and red; uvula retracted; defluxion remained acrid, pungent, and saltish throughout.
Of The Epidemics
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Grandiose though he was, he could hardly have imagined the fearsome awfulness of the twenty-first-century American imperium when he baptized its birth in the early days of the Second World War.
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Mansfield†™ s lecture is a reading from the first chapter of his book, which argues that manliness†"what he defines as sexual rapacity, an appetite for war, a general bull-in-a-china-shop heedlessnessâ€" is preferable to the namby-pamby faggotistical mores being pressed on us by radical feminism and the castratory mandates of late capitalism / twenty-first-century bureaucratic culture.
Harper's Magazine
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With a metafictional wink and a nod from Dew, the narrator comments, "In fact, not until the second decade of the twenty-first century would Sputnik's connection to the demise of Desert Rose dinnerware . . . be noted and remarked upon in a novel written late in the career of one of those three-named women writers who initially cropped up in the 1980s.
Book World: 'Being Polite to Hitler' rounds out profile of an American family
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Thus contemporary virtue ethics needs a notion of moral character apt for the twenty-first century.
The Times Literary Supplement
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They counteract the tendency in twenty-first century America towards biblical illiteracy.
Christianity Today
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Now it has developed into a full-blown national discussion about what it means to be British in the twenty-first century.
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Gruesome and downright unhygienic as the use of such objects now seems, it may be surmised that in the twenty-first century it will be thought equally unpleasant that the best wigs and toupees of the 1960s were made of human hair.
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In the twenty-first century computers make complex structures and irregular component assemblies easier and cheaper.
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At this point he was still some months short of his twenty-first birthday.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Each tale is well written with real characters somewhat hyperbolized to portray aspects of a city that James Frey satirically describes as craving to become the twenty-first century number one international metropolis in spite of NFL meaning not for Los Angeles.
Bright Shiny Morning-James Frey « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
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Fond of a drink, which may have been the cause of her loud behaviour, Elizabeth was described as Amazonian, of huge size, with masculine features and the voice of a stentor.12 It seems clear to us in the twenty-first century that Charlotte and Elizabeth were harmless eccentrics who certainly did not belong in a mental hospital, or even in custody.
Bedlam
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Twenty-first century conservation harnesses new technology to squeeze as much out of a barrel of oil as we have learned to squeeze out of a computer chip.
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In this world of the twenty-first century, with all but five per cent of the population concentrated in the mechanized cities, to be out here, miles from civilization, beyond all hope of communication, off the regular air lanes and without radiophone or heliograph.
"The Barrier" by Harl Vincent, part 4
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And so I found myself very annoyed, in a teacherly sort of way, that the issue of race, and the journey through a rapidly changing, fraught landscape should not be read for what it was, but should be misread as a failure to imaginatively foresee the ideology of the twenty-first century.
On Barack Obama, Part 1 « Tales from the Reading Room
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The concept appears ideal for the wide variety of actions that an expeditionary US military force may face in the twenty-first century.
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Now the human rights dilemmas of the twenty-first century proceed more from anarchy than from tyranny.
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Scott concluded his 1996 study by presenting his vision of a twenty-first-century production complex in which agglomerative forces accelerate through time as actors seek to increase the total stock of agglomeration economies.
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It is almost the middle of the twenty-first century and zombies have taken over a significant portion of the Unites States (presumably the rest of the world also); Alaska has been abandoned to them; people live in constant fear, not wanting to leave their homes, and it only takes a small amount of the Kellis-Amberlee to turn you.
If You’re Going to Read One Zombie Novel This Year, Read “Feed” « The BookBanter Blog
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The political energy that fueled organized labor in the 1930s simply doesn't exist at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
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The continuing search for drugs to combat viral infections presents medicine with one of its greatest challenges in the twenty-first century.
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Learning to speak an extinct indigenous language should be an enormous benefit to Aboriginal kids in getting a job in twenty-first century Australia.
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Both countries agreed to work towards a constructive and cooperative relationship for the twenty-first century.
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One day, thousands of years from now, after the devastating effects of climate change have successfully wiped out the majority of twenty-first century American culture through some cataclysmic disaster that leaves only ruins to be studied, much like how our society now studies ancient Babylon, the children of the future will be sitting in their futuristic classrooms watching the only remaining DVD of our era, which just so happens to be the first season of Big Time Rush, and the teacher is going to say, "This was the pinnacle of twenty-first century American musical achievement," and somewhere in the ethos (* insert name of composer who you feel best represents twenty-first century American musical achievement*) will cry out in despair.
NewMusicBox
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To move beyond rigid rules and roles, the twenty-first century nurse must not only understand nursing and medical language, but use it confidently.
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The payphone is the twenty-first century horse-trough.
Boing Boing: December 29, 2002 - January 4, 2003 Archives
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In a famous essay right after the Second World War, Time magazine founder Henry Luce referred to the twentieth century as the American century. To whom does the twenty-first century belong?
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Cricket, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, is more than any other, the most common ground for all the multiform and opposing elements of the global Indian nation.
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This is based on the notion that mothers and fathers have a great deal of information to share with each other about raising kids in a twenty-first century worlda concept Ive been proposing since 1982, which I call peer groups for parents.
Childhood Unbound
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Johnson will explore what a cholera outbreak in the nineteenth century can tell us about solving the long term challenges we face in the twenty-first century. which sounds interesting enough, so along I roll to see the talk introduced by Brian Eno (charming and tweedily avuncular), in his capacity as co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, devoted to taking the 10,000-year perspective on things.
Brian Eno and Steven Berlin Johnson are a pair of clueless twats « Squares of Wheat
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This book works because it brings together some of the best writers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and lets them speak for themselves.
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We'd already planned a small twenty-first birthday party for the following night.
FRIENDS FOR LIFE
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Every citizen of the twenty-first century should be required to read the personal experiences of the residents of the bombed city.
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Our point rather, is the to examine the myth of Industry-as-Progress in these early years of the twenty-first century and to show that those who dream of hypermodernity today (Left wing bourgeoisie, mediots, and other assorted being like scientists of Esplanade) are actually way way behind times.
Kafila
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California's twenty-first-century economy, weaned away from dependence on military spending, in some ways resembles the postimperial Eu ro pe an economy of the present age.
Paul Starobin: California: The Big Picture
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Saxons, Vikings, and Celts is a bold and ambitious embarkation that reveals the astounding results of Sykes many years of study; while the facts may present more questions of why than answers, Saxons, Vikings and Celts is one of the most important books of the twenty-first century.
2010 March 06 « The BookBanter Blog
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Who would have realised that his ideas would have a lasting influence from their prodigious outflowing in the 1920s right down to the twenty-first century?
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Persisting in this oversight is a prescription for a degree of misery, social and political instability, and conflict in the twenty-first century that no amount of effort at arms control and crisis management will be able to contain.
Pugwash Conferences - Nobel Lecture
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I think the larger issue is that we twenty-first century humans are kind of schizo with respect to drugs.
Just Curious | clusterflock
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The Asian noodle joint gets a twenty-first-century makeover at United Noodles, where a Thai-American chef is deconstructing dumplings, tweaking linguine, and taking soba to new heights.
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Welcome to the twenty-first century.
Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners
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Mixing sentimentalism and human rights, however, remains just as potent a formula in the twenty-first century as the nineteenth.
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They counteract the tendency in twenty-first century America towards biblical illiteracy.
Christianity Today
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So, while the Twenty-First Amendment insists that booze regulation is a state matter, the Commerce Clause rather insists that a state can't have two sets of regs, one for its own producers, and one for the rest of the country.
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Her movement from the Roman Catholicism of childhood, through a brief novitiate, and on to Quaker and then Buddhist practice is not a rarity in these days of picking at the religious buffet of the twenty-first century.
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As we move into the twenty-first century, the lives of the whole human race and of the planet on which we live are at threat.
Phoenix From the Flame
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So much valuable information is offered here that perhaps even the firmest of computer holdouts will be encouraged to join the twenty-first century in order to learn about the seventeenth.
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But if those assumptions were ever right, as we head into the twenty-first century they are definitely out of date.
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The first is an essential part of pedagogy for the twenty-first century.
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Will there be no work left for theoretical physicists to do in the twenty-first century?
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As for accepting the words ‘twenty-first’ and ‘century,’ our inner historians should cry out for better periodization.
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Surrounded by ninmurders, Mary-Golds, puits, carcajous, and ortolans, what is a twenty-first-century reader to do?
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In East Timor, he set up a highly effective “transitional administration”—yet another euphemism for protectorate—that shepherded the troubled region through exemplary elections to independence and a seat of its own in the UN for the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, the first newborn state of the twenty-first century.
The Great Experiment
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Her sapphire ring had been in such a box, her twenty-first birthday ring.
The Glasgow Girls
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The idea of "document" seems to have a promising fascination for the twenty-first century psyche.
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Representative Cobles dismissive comments about the largest-scale American human rights violation of the twentieth century bear directly on his commitmentand his abilityto avoid another one in the twenty-first. posted by Eric 3: 27 PM |
IsThatLegal?
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On the twenty-first day, the chick, now fully developed, starts to break through his thin shell.
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In a similar vein, Nora recommends that community colleges advance into the twenty-first century prepared for a diverse student body.
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All very twenty-first century, I bought my tickets over the internet.
THE MANANA MAN
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Whether that sense took the form, scientifically, of a fascination with galvanism and electromagnetic storms, or of an interest in the role of the ‘animalcules’ and ‘infusoria,’ it clearly foreshadows twenty-first century science.
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CULTURE: Queen's Park will be aburst with African music and culture this weekend as part of the twenty-first annual Afrofest, the largest event of its kind in Canada.
Torontoist
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I found Bellamy's notions of how society could so easily be remade and then perpetuated in its idealized form more than a little soft-headed (says she, full of twenty-first-century cynicism).
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When her hair is shorn so that her forehead may be branded, she will cry your twenty-first century tears.
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We have said that The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a psychomachia, and when Auberon and Adam go off together on the twenty-first birthday, it is an end to the Romance of growing up, or perhaps of the Romance of Youth.
Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses
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It says a cultural revolution is necessary if students are to be adequately equipped for the twenty-first century.
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Yet measles, malnutrition and diarrhoea remain tediously commonplace causes of death in all too many parts of it in the first years of the twenty-first century.
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For all the globalisation of the twenty-first century, we live in a fairly insular society where ‘outside’ opinions are seldom expressed or discussed.
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The continuing search for drugs to combat viral infections presents medicine with one of its greatest challenges in the twenty-first century.
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This is the backdrop against which we consider reforming Canada's political institutions for the twenty-first century.
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The Royal family are undoubtedly part of our historical heritage but how we now deal with that heritage is being, and should be, re-evaluated as we move into the twenty-first century.
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In this world of the twenty-first century, with all but five per cent of the population concentrated in the mechanized cities, to be out here, miles from civilization, beyond all hope of communication, off the regular air lanes and without radiophone or heliograph.
"The Barrier" by Harl Vincent, part 4
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These are the issues which matter to the security of the West as we approach the twenty-first century.
The Global Marketplace
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But the ability of unions to retain their relevance in the twenty-first century is far from certain.
Human Resource Management in Government
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Firms can also secund young associates to public sector agencies (e.g., the county prosecutor's office), where they can be paid by the firm but get far more hands-on experience than they would as twenty-first person on a multidistrict litigation team ...
Law firms
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The digitisation neurosis of the early twenty-first century, the drive to create endlessly duplicable and available electronic copies of literary and artistic works (many of which, being made from wood pulp, are effective carbon sequestration devices) requires the constant whirring of hard drives, the persistent presence of electrically live bandwidth, and the consequent carbon on-costs.
Forgetting, to live « Squares of Wheat
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On the twenty-first birthday, it is usual to present the celebrant with a symbolic silver key to adulthood.
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After a slow and gradual depression, a month before my twenty-first birthday, his heart gave out.
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Maybe not the women (those characters need some major work to bring them into the twenty-first century), but the racism – while not excusable – is certainly reparable without much effort at all.
Gorillas Riding Dinosaurs: Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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With the collapse of the Soviet Union and its client states and the marketization of the Chinese economy, there seem to be no real totalitarian states left in the world as the twenty-first century opens.
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What do you think might be a viable form of economic organization for the early twenty-first century?
Sociology
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Since the early twenty-first century, lol has been a must-have abbreviation.1 Devised by internet users, it conveys mirth—“laughing out loud”—that is invisible and inaudible in purely onscreen interaction.
The English Is Coming!
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It is burdensome if the twenty-first century primitive artist is supposed to have escaped the march of history to help the rest of us treasure some mythical past.
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From the vantage point of the twenty-first century, it is fascinating to watch the rapid innovations in science and technology overtake their fictional anticipation and to return to our most speculative and fantastical literature to see how perceptively it anticipated the social and geopolitical transformations — and challenges — these innovations would inspire.
Final Deadline Approaching: ‘American Literature’ Special Issue on SF, Fantasy, and Myth « Gerry Canavan
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As the twenty-first century dawned, issues of immigration policy would clearly remain on the national agenda.
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In the early twenty-first century, satellites and planetary probes are routinely shot into space on multistage rockets.
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She had first had her suspicions years before when he had sent her a photograph taken on his twenty-first birthday.
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A missiology for the twenty-first century will reaffirm this universal theme as a dimension of the Good News.
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By the beginning of the twenty-first century, every form of sexual exploitation, including soft-core child pornography, had been adapted by advertisers.
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By the start of the twenty-first century, there were nineteen megacities, only four of which were in industrialized countries.
The Times Literary Supplement
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In a pretelevision era, the reports took the place of smoke, burning buildings, weeping victims, stabbing or shooting wounds, and other outrages that grab and hold the American viewing public in the twenty-first century.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
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In spite of being exempt from military service he'd volunteered on his twenty-first birthday.
Bomber
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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, people are excited by the prospect of visiting new worlds in outer space.
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Read the Book of Judges ," Miss Olympia said, "the twenty-first verse.
WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE
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THE GLASS CEILING is firmly intact in academe at the start of the twenty-first century.
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We would sail in an exact replica of James Cook's original Endeavour as near as possible under eighteenth-century conditions, but with the clear understanding that we were twenty-first-century travelers.
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In Doomsday Book the twenty-first century is stricken by yet another pandemic, almost as deadly as the Black Death was in the fourteenth.
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As a result it's bypassing some of the slow, tortuous back-roads of development that make Hong Kong feel like somebody took the nineteen fifties and suddenly gave them twenty-first century technology.
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Those of us who live in the wonderful world of the twenty-first century are inclined to forget, even if we were alive then, just how prudish and tight-arsed the English were in the 1950s.
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This trend toward population diversity is expected to continue so that by the middle of the twenty-first century, the size of the majority will be significantly smaller.
An Introduction to Community Health
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It is a sad indictment of our times that in the twenty-first century, people in the developing world cannot access safe water and are filling bowls from streams, queuing at village pumps and defecating in ‘free range’ toilets.
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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea … EDF, of course, was engaged in that characteristically twenty-first century French endeavour, the development of nuclear power.
Margaret Drabble | Trespassing
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In the twenty-first century, our Fable for Tomorrow is not some disaster we are trying to avert but a vague, incalculable, and potentially serious threat to our children's health.
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Call centres are too often the twenty-first century's satanic mills; but here the workers in this stressful business are given a dignified and humane environment.
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Those of us who live in the wonderful world of the twenty-first century are inclined to forget, even if we were alive then, just how prudish and tight-arsed the English were in the 1950s.
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Biblical prophecy is not easily translated to the twenty-first century.
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From him descended in the subsequent centuries serious intellectuals, hard men ready to commit violence, messianic figures whose zeal seems most foreign to twenty-first-century realities.
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I don't know where I would be without the technological marvels of the twenty-first century.
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They counteract the tendency in twenty-first century America towards biblical illiteracy.
Christianity Today
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The day after his twenty-first birthday, Lawrence left home to be a musician.
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Turkey should be a part of the EU, a bridge between the occident and the orient, but only after it has evolved into the twenty-first century.
2006 September 22 « Eclectics Anonymous
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It is as powerful an iconic image in the Twenty-First Century, as in the Twentieth.
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As the smoker has become a pariah, sufferers from lung cancer have become the lepers of the twenty-first century.
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The twenty-first century will be driven by dual-use technologies, which will greatly affect future conflict.
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Chapter one opens by speaking to all readers about nurses in the twenty-first century.
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What had turned him to a career which would make his name a byword for cruelty and evil that would echo into the twenty-first century?
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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His latest effort is The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, in a hefty tome, where Dawkins attempts to present a concise view of science to the world in many short passages from many different scientists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that tessellate together to form a beautiful volume of writing.
“The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing” Edited by Richard Dawkins (Oxford University Press, 2008) « The BookBanter Blog
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All very twenty-first century, I bought my tickets over the internet.
THE MANANA MAN
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By the early twenty-first century, extrasolar planets have been found orbiting almost seventy solar-mass stars in the nearby region of the galaxy.
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The report makes a number of recommendations to ‘bring standards of safety and quality to acceptable levels for the twenty-first century.’
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About the twenty-first, weight generally in the left side, with pain; slight urine thick, muddy, and reddish; when allowed to stand, had no sediment; in other respects felt lighter; fever not gone; fauces painful from the commencement, and red; uvula retracted; defluxion remained acrid, pungent, and saltish throughout.
Of The Epidemics
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The West has always been a region of movement and migration, of peopling and repeopling; this was so in the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries as it still is in the twenty-first.
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But the secret may be to use antimatter as fast as it is generated - a challenge for rocketeers of the twenty-first century.
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The Queen, writing to her Uncle Leopold in this the twenty-first year of their marriage, says: "_Very_ few can say with me that their husband at the end of twenty-one years is _not_ only full of the friendship, kindness, and affection which a truly happy marriage brings with it, but the same tender love of the _very first days of our marriage_!
Queen Victoria
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solicitors and a few accountants, the professional mafiosi with nineteenth-century working practices and twenty-first century prices.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms.
Ocean acidification
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Radio broadcasts and recordings of epic tales and local histories told by leading griots have helped transport this literature into the twenty-first century.
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A twenty-first-century affair, of smoked glass, presence and inclusion, cinemas and escalators and bars, the Omni building promises leisure for all.
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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea … EDF, of course, was engaged in that characteristically twenty-first century French endeavour, the development of nuclear power.
Margaret Drabble | Trespassing
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I'm ready to advance into the twenty-first century.
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When a twenty-first century audience comes to this, what are their questions?
Christianity Today
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Section five of said chapter one hundred and sixteen, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after the word "remarries" in the twenty-first line the fol - lowing: —, minor children, — so as to read as follows: —
Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
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About the twenty-first, weight generally in the left side, with pain; slight urine thick, muddy, and reddish; when allowed to stand, had no sediment; in other respects felt lighter; fever not gone; fauces painful from the commencement, and red; uvula retracted; defluxion remained acrid, pungent, and saltish throughout.
Of The Epidemics
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It was a scene more from the nineteenth century than the twenty-first.
Somewhere East of Life
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Thereafter, Twenty-first Army Group pushed steadily towards the Rhine.
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In the early twenty-first century, lower costs for search, coordination, and evaluation are making previously unthought-of applications feasible - just as happened with the Internet in the 1990's.
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In addition to purely geostrategic criteria, another issue just as important for the world economy of the twenty-first century lies at the heart of this conflict - control of the worldwide power supply of oil and gas.
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A farmer in Indiana left his valuable farm in trust to his unthrifty son, to go to his granddaughter on her twenty-first birthday.
Old MacDonald Had a Cow ... and a Granddaughter
