How to Use postmodern in a Sentence

postmodern

adjective

• The jokes are in one way works of their postmodern moment.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2020
• In postmodern dance, all of this stuff has been done before.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2020
• Here was a postmodern love song dished out with attitude and verve by a band that seemed to come out of nowhere.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• One thing is for sure: his book is a postmodern delight.
  — townandcountrymag.com, 4 June 2023
• That's a lofty calling, but Conway could only fly so close to the postmodern sun for so long.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 13 July 2017
• But thanks to the gut-punch beauty of his singing, the end result never sounds like a postmodern pastiche.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 16 Mar. 2018
• Le Quinton said that the challenge in a postmodern era of doing any of this stuff is that the audiences are so aware and so smart.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 19 July 2018
• The postmodern novel about a housewife in Ohio is written as one sentence, and is 1,040 pages long.
  — Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2019
• At Milan Fashion Week, the latest epoch on the creative director's mind was the the postmodern.
  — Karina Hoshikawa, Teen Vogue, 21 Feb. 2018
• Most of the film takes place in this glass-and-steel monument to Miles’ ego; its postmodern pop-art decor proves that old adage about money not buying taste.
  — Katie Rife, Chron, 22 Nov. 2022
• The tedium of the pandemic might be behind a shift toward pieces from the postmodern era.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
• This post-postmodern one-two punch knocked readers on their asses.
  — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2021
• The United States had quietly waged a postmodern war on China, and won.
  — Paul Krugman, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2023
• Until the postmodern era, these methods were employed to enhance the figure and in pursuit of a set idea of beauty.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2022
• Brown’s early pieces were not easy, even for those committed to postmodern dance.
  — F.r. | Edinburgh, The Economist, 9 Aug. 2019
• The internet has always contained the seeds of postmodern hell.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2018
• But something else is lost, too: the irony or wry, gothic humor, the self-subverting postmodern wink.
  — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
• The atrium brought a splash of postmodern drama to an otherwise low-key structure.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• The feed of Charlie Puth, a 30-year-old maestro of radio-ready cheesiness, feels a bit like postmodern performance art.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
• But postmodern fusion isn’t the only way to expand the jazz audience.
  — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2017
• Styled much like a postmodern shipping container, there’s more than 41 cubic feet of cargo space, even with all three rows in use.
  — cleveland, 9 Sep. 2023
• Yet the effect of all this uncertainty isn’t the usual postmodern absence of truth.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
• This was something different: a little bit madcap, a little bit postmodern art project, a lot of run and gun.
  — Sam Schube, GQ, 19 Aug. 2017
• Karl Lagerfeld is a complex, brilliant, postmodern sort of man.
  — Kennedy Fraser, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2019
• There are also video projections and dance, ranging from postmodern to hip hop.
  — Josefin Dolsten, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• Better, surely, just to acknowledge that the bad stuff was bad than to try to turn its badness into a postmodern triumph.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
• Moynahan discovered her growing fame on the show in a very postmodern way.
  — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2024
• In another writer’s hands, this tale-within-a-tale might have been an arch, postmodern device.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 14 June 2023
• In effect, Putinism is something much more crafty and postmodern than the lumbering, stifling control enforced by the Soviet state.
  — Joshua Yaffa, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2012
• Thus, in a strange way, Macklemore’s track represents a kind of postmodern apotheosis of the protest song as a musical form — at least until someone manages to earn plaudits for merely announcing the intention to write a protest song.
  — David Polansky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024