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The season juxtaposes traditional Japanese aesthetics (wabi-sabi, mono no aware) with intrusive modernity.
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Martine Paris, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
There’s a video on YouTube of Gianni Agnelli being interviewed in 1988, striking the sartorial balance of tradition and modernity for which he was renowned.
—Naomi Rougeau, Robb Report, 16 Mar. 2025
On the one hand, their blurring of genres, their fusion of architecture, art, and media, is part of a postmodernism that today has precious little purchase left on capitalist modernity—indeed, that fronts for that modernity as much as anything else.
—News Desk, Artforum, 13 Mar. 2025
At its core is the rejection of modernity, the belief that industrialization has corrupted nature and that the past held purer solutions.
—Boutayna Chokrane, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2025
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Martine Paris, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
There’s a video on YouTube of Gianni Agnelli being interviewed in 1988, striking the sartorial balance of tradition and modernity for which he was renowned.
—Naomi Rougeau, Robb Report, 16 Mar. 2025
On the one hand, their blurring of genres, their fusion of architecture, art, and media, is part of a postmodernism that today has precious little purchase left on capitalist modernity—indeed, that fronts for that modernity as much as anything else.
—News Desk, Artforum, 13 Mar. 2025
At its core is the rejection of modernity, the belief that industrialization has corrupted nature and that the past held purer solutions.
—Boutayna Chokrane, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for modernity
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“Modernity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/modernity. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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