modernist

How To Use modernist In A Sentence

• Try to see it on a big screen for the full effect of its magnificent, cheerless vistas, which meld ice and sky in a horizonless prospect, highlighting the drama as if on a modernist stage.
• An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.
• Eventually almost all postwar writers whose work departs significantly from convention have come to be labeled "postmodernist," a term that has definable meaning but that also has been used as an aid in this lashing-out, a way to further disparage such writers both by lumping them together indiscriminately and by identifying their work as just another participant in literary fashion. Postmodernism
• In this way, the Academy's representation of modernist pieces was only part of the battle.
• This antimodernist nativism pervaded the 1920s, but it was particularly visible in the scientific racism of the eugenics movement, the xenophobia of the "100 percent American" movement, the sharp resurgence in the Ku Klux Klan, the post – World War One Red Scare (directed primarily at immigrant radicals), and in a series of draconian immigration restriction acts. 11 Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
• That said, the compression and reticence of Italian high modernist poetry are still prominent stylistic features in Italian verse.
• Often post-Soviet Russian literature is called postmodernist when what is really meant is that it is post-Soviet. A Progressive on the Prairie
• As that arch-modernist T. S. Eliot predicted, ‘This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.’
• We resist getting typecast either as conservationists or modernists.
• Both the copies and the rubbings are completely different in spirit from postmodernist appropriation.