modernist English

Meaning modernist meaning

What does modernist mean?

modernist

— noun an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles

Synonyms modernist synonyms

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modernist English » English

modern

innovator

up-to-date people

modernizer

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Well, Mike is very highly thought of. He's a modernist.

Modernist?

What's a modernist in the Church of England?

They're trying to force a modernist on me.

Placing quotations from Western modernist art and consumer culture side by side with symbols of both totalitarian and religious art, they revealed their essential similarity within the world ideological constellation.

Later, their use of Eastern modernist images resulted in their being directly accused of working for the discredited Communists.

She's a post-modernist literature professor.

I'm a post-modernist.

We were called Mods 'cause we were modernist.

And this is the period when the early experiments of the high Modernist period start to be broken down, rationalized, codified, you get the emergence of this so-called international typographic style or Swiss style.

I'm a Modernist, you know.

The sort of classical modernist line on how aware a reader should be of a typeface is that they shouldn't be aware of it at all.

I think that the whole image of modernism as something that is primarily concerned with functionalism, utilitarianism, that is something that emerged much later, that is a sort of a late-modernist thing.

I think the early-modernist movements, like Dadaism, Futurism, Surrealism, all had their more subversive sides and their more, how do you call it, dialectical sides, so they went against something.

He's a modernist.

Post-modernist, neo-cubist.

No. You live in that awful modernist place in town.

A modernist, who leans more than somewhat to the left.

Because deep down you're an optimistic bourgeois modernist.

The modernist gallery.

The modernist movement has its roots in the age of enlightenment and strives to put aside traditional art to experiment with new ideas.

Of course, I'm a modernist by trade but you, a doctor, will understand one prescribes as required.

He's a modernist. Oh.

Not sure I can trust a modernist with an English name.

Give me a German modernist.

As impressive as the modernist buildings is the number of directorates, councils, comissions and ministries which occupy them.

There is hidden mockery under the traditional as well as modernist perception of beauty.

Jones. Sod 'em all. It was a brilliant. post-modernist masterpiece of oratorical fireworks, really.

No, you live in that awful, modernist place in town.

Some Flemish modernist painters, George Grosz, Wols, and a Paul Klee.

Faulkner uses language the way the Modernist painters were using paint.

Oh. Not sure I can trust a modernist with an English name.

News and current affairs

Fatwas promulgated after Bin Baz are almost always horrendous in their intolerance and virulence, and certainly appear backward and anti-modernist.

Dr. Mahathir has always been a hard-headed modernist.

The Premier used this opportunity to soften his anti-Western image by re-affirming his modernist and secular position against those who sympathized with Islamic extremism.

I am a husband and father, a Buddhist, a jazz aficionado, a molecular biologist, a marksman, and a reader of modernist fiction.

Her sentence was roundly supported by modernist Muslim intellectuals, who insisted that the punishment was justly applied and cannot be questioned because it has divine sanction.

The blogger who dismissed The Washington Post's corrections of Santorum's fictional portrayal of the Netherlands expressed himself like a perfect post-modernist.

It is a sad testament to Russia's current mindset that it is Solzhenitsyn the anti-modernist crank who is being remembered, not Solzhenitsyn the towering foe of Soviet barbarism and mendacity.

Instead of a dialogue of civilizations and support for modernist forces in the Middle East, preference has been given to an almost opposite course of action.

In Indonesia, however, Abduh's vision of Islamic modernity sparked the creation of the country's largest modernist Muslim organization, Muhammadiyah, which represents mainstream moderate Islam in Indonesia.

They were too busy making egalitarian, modernist new worlds of their own, with an Arab, and often Islamic, imprimatur.