How To Use Modish In A Sentence
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At this point, however, the quartet was wandering in a perfumed garden of psychedelic modishness, and all the better for it.
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In others, such as Alessandro Allori's image of a magnificently dressed and bejeweled, strong-minded young woman c. 1580s, the name of the subject is unknown, while in still others, such as Jusepe de Ribera's imaginary portrait of an ancient philosopher or Lucas Cranach the Elder's modishly attired 16th-century Saxon charmer, we are given an ideal or a general type, rather than a specific individual.
See Their Worlds in Their Faces
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The insides are modish to a fault, but not eccentric in the way the exterior will be.
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But in the Sixties, as some of us know, wearing modish flat shoes could be as much an act of insolent opposition as a fashion statement.
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“Oh, I dunno,” says our informant, another sprightly juvenile, modishly clad in jellaba, brass-buttoned jacket, and pirate head-scarf.
Flashman on the March
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Her poems are modishly experimental in style and recondite in subject-matter.
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He insinuates a languor of sun-mist and lustre into his modish Arcadia: a region of roses, felicitously painted, and ruins sketched on his Italian journeys, all against the backdrops of the opera-ballets of his time.
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It is, she says, an admission of defeat, buying into the currently modish idea that men and women are fundamentally different and so can never live together in any kind of equality.
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Gradually, though, I realized, that Luz, the school's elegant, middle-aged director, and modish, twenty-five-year-old Luis could talk on or join us for comida (the big afternoon meal) because they weren't rushing off somewhere.
Eight surprises from a senior year abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico
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It is bliss, Lindsay House, a set of elegant Georgian rooms where you can eat a menu that is both seasonal and resolutely un-modish: braised hare with polenta, rabbit terrine, pike and eel pâté, braised chicken with colcannon.
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The coquette Lady Betty Modish is led to accept the suit of the honourable Lord Morelove (contrasted with the boastful and immoral Lord Foppington) by a plot to excite her jealousy, followed by reproaches from Sir Charles.
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He died in 1918 and has become as modish as he is controversial.
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We think it's modish and poppish.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Other varieties enjoying modish popularity in the late 1990s were Pinot Noir, Cabernet Franc, and some which have origins in the Rhône; Syrah and Viognier are foremost.
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These studio moments whispered the transient chic of a leopard-print tie and fingerless gloves, capturing a modish instant.
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In the wake of Romanticism, religion had also become modish.
Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War
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Modish
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The modish interior does not sport fitted carpets.
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So easily can the line between modish chic and outright pretension be crossed when the decor is not chosen with the deftest of touch in bars such as this.
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In another he remonstrates against certain frivolous affectations, and some of the coxcombries of literary modishness.
Diderot and the Encyclopaedists
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Emotionally, he keeps the film in the same modishly cool gear, mirroring the 19-year-old's detachment to the consequences of blindly following a wanted felon.
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The Small Faces looked far more modish.
The Sun
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Modern Italian cuisine is the order of the day, the setting is similarly modish.
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The Graves-designed toilets and sinks are modishly rounded, and the Graves-designed white kitchen is packed with Graves products, including his signature blue-handled teapot, toaster, coffeepot and whisk.
Michael Graves: Miami Twice
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He insinuates a languor of sun-mist and lustre into his modish Arcadia: a region of roses, felicitously painted, and ruins sketched on his Italian journeys, all against the backdrops of the opera-ballets of his time.
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Transition from maidenhood to what is called the matronly had been too rapid; it was emphasised by her costume, which cried aloud in its excess of modish splendour.
The Crown of Life
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Few academics slog through Scott anymore, but English departments still need Scott scholars; you can jump the line of more modish tenure seekers, if you volunteer to play the frump.
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When one arrives at the platform, attractive and modishly adorned stewardesses usher you to your berth.
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Some of this can be attributed to the sort of corporate mix Cambridge attracts - fewer once-modish internet or software companies, more research-intensive firms in biosciences, medical technology and the like.
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Button to the top for a smart, modish look or leave open if you're feeling more preppy.
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She is always crazy at modish things.
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Yet my experiences in the salons and at the stand-up recitals of the new literary scene suggest that, despite the occasional piece of irritating modishness, the hyperbole with which some events are trumpeted and the odd ropy performance, there is an energy and invention on offer that the established scene and its practitioners might do well to allow to rub off on them.
The new wave of literary events
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His place really looks lived in — noting expensive or modish just to impress people.
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Those in the club wing are designer style, with modish decor and bathrooms, and balconies high above the surf.
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You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching.
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Again, a certain kind of modish appearance seems important.
Movie stars see their name in lights and on babies
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Reporters noted that Carmichael, unlike the denim-clad SCLC supporters and somber-suited politicians, was dressed modishly.
Burial for a King
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Not much larger than a regular watch, it looks modish.
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In an outmoded attempt at modishness, the play moves backward in time, though moving forward it would have proved just as backward.
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He died in 1918 and has become as modish as he is controversial.
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By then his celebrity was well established and he wore a dark suit of shiny mohair in a modish cut.
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The main avenue made sense to him only as fragments of a discordant puzzle: mirrored glass and throbbing loudspeakers, a modishness that seemed pirated, misplaced; here, a flashy music store; there, the facade of a hamburger shop litigiously similar to an American franchise.
Heaven Lake
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You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching.
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Even the most puritanical, old-style theorist, or the most modishly self-conscious, context-seeking musicologist will be hugely entertained, as well as enlightened, by this book.
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Just as many modern restaurateurs think you should do without a cruet, some modish winemakers abjure oak, preferring to let the grapes speak for themselves.
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You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching.
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The modish interior does not sport fitted carpets.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, the final verdict is expected enough: So as much as I want to grab the panelists by their modish lapels and shake them and demand to know exactly what the hell they're talking about, it is not my right to do so, for I am not there by invitation, I am not a member of their community, and I have no right to expect that their words should mean anything to me.
Literary Study
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In the wake of Romanticism, religion had also become modish.
Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War
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If this sounds like European avant-garde theatre at its most off-puttingly modish, the effect is in fact kookily funny and coolly self-aware.
Thomas Ostermeier: 'Hamlet? The play's a mess'
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Not much larger than a regular watch, it looks modish.
Times, Sunday Times
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You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching.
Times, Sunday Times
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By then his celebrity was well established and he wore a dark suit of shiny mohair in a modish cut.
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Symphony No 5 dates from 1923-4, is the most extended in its quintet of movements, and is a thoroughly convincing rejection of post-war modishness.
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However, one does not always care to be witnessed in such a painfully unmodish state.
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Excessive deference to European modishness can be passed off as many things but not as US constitutional law.
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A couple of painted wooden busts of early 16th-century South Netherlandish fashion plates—probably some of St. Ursula's martyred companions—conceal skull fragments under complicated hairstyles and modish clothing.
Where Revered Relics Repose
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Which leaves the visitor free to form opinions free of the critical and cultural pressure that comes with looking at consecrated classic or modish modern art.
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What was once enigmatically mesmerising in this kind of modish Iranian movie is now redundant and exasperating.
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Box one: modishly rustic ingredients such as pork belly and shoulder of lamb, the latter served with bubble and squeak.
Feast fit for a king
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They also favor the natural and contemporary floral bouquet that are fashionable and modish.
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She sits there, nearly crushing the spindly, modish bench some twee designer has deemed appropriate for business chitchat.
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Those in the club wing are designer style, with modish decor and bathrooms, and balconies high above the surf.
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The area's five bike shops carry an array of full-suspension mountain bikes, body armor, and loose-fitting, modish clothing made for playing in the dirt.
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Not much larger than a regular watch, it looks modish.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Small Faces looked far more modish.
The Sun
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Moral virtues were a cunningly indirect alibi for modish economic vices.
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The Small Faces looked far more modish.
The Sun
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Second, for all the faux modishness of recent years, football supporters remain tribal.
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His hands are wrapped around a dimpled tankard and he is wearing a modish belted velveteen coat.
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‘Arguably, the seventh most-renowned serious vocal ensemble in the world’, its five members turn up their snooty noses at anything remotely popular or modish.
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Brief figuring style, neat and spiffy prints in and fashionable narrow design show your modish feelings.
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It should be subtlely cheesy, creamy and soft – not too dense, or modishly al dente, it's a dish that embraces the Victorian values of modesty and quiet, plain simplicity.
How to cook perfect macaroni cheese
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Rhoda's willowy figure, modish straw hat, and fuchsia gloves and shoes surprised Janice.
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However, more modish philosophical gentlemen of the period looked quite different, usually sporting a fashionably ‘lank’ hairstyle, a shortened form of frock coat, and a stock fastened with a tiepin.
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But this modish mob doesn't just follow the trends, they also wear them.
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Banville is having his sly way with all the modishness so freely available in the intellectual and the not-so-intellectual culture, in the cults of secrecy and scandal that are so unrevealing.
FRIDAY GRAB BAG
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The resulting design was a restrained gown of creamy white silk tastefully ornamented with a soft crushed rose velvet; both women agreed that pure white, although currently quite modish, did not suit.
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The results for me are modish and enjoyable but never very exciting.
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You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching.
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In its latest incarnation, it is has been modishly renovated pale grey walls, partially glazed roof, pretty courtyard to create an attractive all-day brasserie.
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You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching.
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How tragic is this modish contempt for the past and obsession with the sensation of the present.
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Another coaeval of those days calls him handsome ” an epithet I should hardly apply to him later ” slight, not tall, sharp featured, with dark hair well tended, always modishly dressed after the fashion of the thirties, the fashion of Bulwer's exquisites, or of H.K. Browne's
Biographical Study of A W Kinglake
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You are saying we cannot be modishly innovative.
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The insides are modish to a fault, but not eccentric in the way the exterior will be.
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This is no mere modish exploration of reception history, but an assemblage of stories with fascinating prehistories.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It is to the likes of constant Billy that Michael turns when he thinks that maybe his festival, his humanitarian dream of righteousness and virtue, is getting a little soft-shelled and modish, a bit too grand and deluxe, Glyndebourne on mild magic mushrooms, baby-boomer Butlins, an X and Y generation package holiday, an excuse for mere excursionist hijinks.
Billy Bragg's Glastonbury tips
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Sagging baggies, tattoos, false nails and hair, piercings, what are we of a certain age and with squeamish sensibilities, to make of such modishness?
Crack Attack!
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Stylishly dressed in black and sporting bold, contemporary jewellery, she exudes the modish vibrancy of a woman half her age.
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Button to the top for a smart, modish look or leave open if you're feeling more preppy.
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Car dealers, meanwhile, will expect that the updated format will inspire a rush of sales to modish motorists.
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At the same time, it broadened out into the full range of modish telecoms services, including internet and data traffic.
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The sandals were contraband because, modish though they were at the time, bare feet have no place on corporate shagpile.
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Denizens of the world of art naturally see the whole thing rather differently, viewing a critical platform as a useful vehicle for the dissemination of, say, the latest modish orthodoxies.
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He died in 1918 and has become as modish as he is controversial.
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Button to the top for a smart, modish look or leave open if you're feeling more preppy.
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A bright orange backpack was slung ever so modishly across his shoulders and, when he turned around, I saw that he was wearing a black Nirvana T-shirt and neon pink Converse sneakers.
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The modish interior does not sport fitted carpets.
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The top floor flat even has a modish sleeping loft overlooking the living space below.
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Pen on something more serious and learned; but they tell me, I shall meet with no Incouragement, and advise me to write rather more modishly, that is, less like a Christian, and in a Style careless and loose, as the Custom of the present Age is to live.
The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, an English Lad
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(That was a subtle touch by the writer, parenthetically using modish, meaning
Mr. Verb
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In the wake of Romanticism, religion had also become modish.
Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War
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The insides are modish to a fault, but not eccentric in the way the exterior will be.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those in the club wing are designer style, with modish decor and bathrooms, and balconies high above the surf.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is another subject about which it is currently modish to express concern - political apathy among young people.
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In the photograph my aunt, modish and posturing, didn't look remotely like a woman going down with a common or garden head cold.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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But the chair is important to his father, Martin, the ex-policeman, who mentors with warmth and affection his two modish and conflicted sons.
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He was young and handsome, and although he wore the simple garb of the Quakers he had not yet perhaps quite forgotten the "modish" ways of his younger days, for about his waist he had knotted a pale blue scarf.
This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States
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This year's shortlist, for instance, is not sensational, modish, tendentious or obscure.
Turner prize 2010 – review
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Meatballs may be modish, but I think they're best done simply: beef and pork, peppery parsley, sweet onion and the aromatic anise of fennel seeds, lightened with breadcrumbs and quick fried to give a deep brown, caramelised crust.
How to cook perfect meatballs