Modern cookbooks are marketing tools for chefs. They're in the bestseller lists but no one cooks from them.
Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
Reagan has been deified by the Republican Party, which is odd. The Reagan that modern Republicans revere is not the real Reagan.
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.