How to Use modernism in a Sentence

modernism

noun
  • The Red Studio is among the most gorgeous lodestars in all of modernism.
    Vulture, 3 May 2022
  • The guest rooms and suites combine French chic with Dutch modernism.
    Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • That, in essence, was the dream of 20th-century modernism.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Over at the Sharonville Convention Center, modernism is all the rage.
    Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 17 Feb. 2020
  • The first is thought, by some, to mark the birth of modernism; the second, played live by Brent Griffin Jr. and cronies, ushered in a sub-genre now called free jazz.
    Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2024
  • Secular modernism has tried to get the fruits of the Jesus-message without the roots.
    Time, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The truth is, the legacy of modernism still works against the making of beautiful public space.
    Michael J. Lewis, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
  • This was the year that deconstruction and modernism were born.
    New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The Genesis typeface is seamless in the back, so the flushness of modernism is very much here.
    Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2018
  • To hell with the aesthetic tyranny of chilly modernism!
    Kelsey Keith, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2018
  • And the modernism of the past century remains ever-present.
    Amy Verner, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The building’s modernism seemed refreshing, up to a point.
    Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Ernesto’s work — the civic promise of modernism and his own warm version of it — inspired Richard to join the profession.
    New York Times, 18 Dec. 2021
  • His plan, too, is a work of modernism, vividly painted and highly styled.
    Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 11 June 2019
  • Is this a terrible break from Lever House’s sleek modernism?
    Audrey Wachs, Curbed, 14 Mar. 2022
  • With the invention of collage in 1912, the Cubists opened a second path for modernism.
    Jason Farago, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2022
  • More in Icons Now the new Tate Britain show suggests seeing him as a precursor of modernism.
    J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2018
  • How could a tastemaker who preached the gospel of modernism become a convert to the baubles and trimmings of postmodernism?
    Mary Ann Gwinn, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
  • In his younger years, he was attracted to a severe modernism.
    Nr Editors, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Instead, the Frick has wisely opted for a third way: modernism with a human face.
    Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Apr. 2018
  • But the artists who remained grappled with the war and its aftermath, and shaped German modernism.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • But that alienation—the flip side of modernism—is missing from Murrell’s take on the Harlem Renaissance.
    Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The lobby, guest rooms, spa and two pools combine a clubby modernism and dolce far niente, while heart-skipping views of the Dolomites backdrop it all.
    Andrew Nelson, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2022
  • That’s why the history of modernism is often cast as the history of a failure.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
  • This room showed me that there are ways to push modernism into something that is really baroque.
    Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Plus, just as Chávez and Copland got much of their technique from Parisian modernism, so too Benzecry.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The Brazilian architect, considered to be one of the fathers of 20th century modernism, was born, lived, and died in the city.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2019
  • The group began as almost exclusively white and male, and was averse to modernism and other new art forms.
    Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Murrell and her team at the Met have not only unearthed these pieces for a broader audience but also shown that Black art is a part of modernism, which is so much more than Picasso, Matisse, and other practitioners of white-guy aesthetics.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
  • New building projects required the fascist architectural agenda to balance history with modernism.
    Ashley Gardini, JSTOR Daily, 6 June 2023

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