Thesaurus results for MODERNISM

modernism

noun

as in archaism

a way of saying something that is particular to the present day; a modern speech form modernisms like "blog" and "life hack"

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Recent Examples of modernism Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy by Alex Mar The Little Review, the radical and short-lived magazine helmed by Jane Heap and Margaret Anderson, was a vanguard of modernism in American culture. —

The New York Review of Books, 29 Nov. 2024 Street scenes, meanwhile, could only be shot with extreme caution, and usually only scenes involving the hijab, the veil for women whose removal has become a symbol in the fight for liberation and modernism. —

Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Nov. 2024 Verbatim: Fredric Jameson Marxist cultural critic Fredric Jameson offered a philosophy of late capitalism that gave us a language for talking about globalization and the end of modernism. —

JSTOR Daily, 22 Nov. 2024 These pictures offer a unique and captivating blend of classicism and modernism. —

Chadd Scott, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for modernism

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Narrator Mary Lewis, raised in Newfoundland herself, delivers the book in a manner that seems stilted at first but grows more appealing as Lewis moves further into the story, with its pleasing archaisms and evocation of balked communication.

Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
That phrase, which may strike some young American ears as an archaism if not an oxymoron, is worth unpacking, and Amis provides readers with a pocket account of the historical preconditions of his extravagant fame.

A.O. SCOTT, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018