How To Use Modishness 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 another he remonstrates against certain frivolous affectations, and some of the coxcombries of literary modishness.
Diderot and the Encyclopaedists
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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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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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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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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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Excessive deference to European modishness can be passed off as many things but not as US constitutional law.
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Second, for all the faux modishness of recent years, football supporters remain tribal.
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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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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!