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postmodern with regard to art
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She uses words as a prominent part of her paintings as is sometimes done in postmodern art.
postmodern = rejecting logic, simplicity, and order in favor of playful or mixed styles
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Drawings of their orbits would fill a gallery with postmodern art, but that's not my goal. (source)postmodern = rejecting logic and structure in favor of playful or mixed styles
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"A jeu d'esprit," says Charna, "which takes on the Group of Seven and reconstructs their vision of landscape in the light of contemporary experiment and postmodern pastiche." (source)postmodern = rejection in art of logic and structure in favor of playful or mixed styles
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Max sat down to take a breather, perusing some of the spines before him: Great Works of the Nineteenth Century, Art of the Baroque, Secret Techniques of the Old Masters, Dada and Surrealism, The Genius of Rembrandt, Hidden Symbols of Bernini, A Renaissance of Art and Man, Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century, The Postmodern Dilemma ... (source)Postmodern = rejecting logic and structure in favor of playful or mixed styles
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Another postmodern sunset, rich in romantic imagery.
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postmodern = rejecting logic and structure in favor of playful or mixed styles
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postmodern with regard to architecture
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Postmodern architects may consider many modern buildings to be soulless.
postmodern = a style intended to please, surprise or amuse by dismissing the logic, simplicity, and order inherent in modernist architecture
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The decor would be sleek postmodern, the food superlative, and the prices steep. (source)postmodern = surprising or mixed style that rejects strict structure
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Her father continued a few streets down and pulled up to their old house, a postmodern angry brown box with only one square window, right in the center—a huge letdown after their waterfront faded-blue Icelandic row house. (source)
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The cathedral garth was a cloistered, pentagonal garden with a bronze postmodern fountain. (source)
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We drove over two different bridges crossing a winding creek, past four different gardens, then through a second set of gates before coming to the main house, which looked like a postmodern version of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland—white-and-gray slab walls jutting out at strange angles, slender towers like organ pipes, huge plate glass windows, and a burnished steel front door so large it probably had to be opened by chain-pulling trolls. (source)postmodern = using a surprising or mixed style that rejects strict structure
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It was a rounded, postmodern McDonald's on the eastern edge of the city. (source)postmodern = with a surprising or mixed style that rejects strict structure
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"Postmodern bundling," he said. (source)Postmodern = aims to please, surprise or amuse by dismissing the logic, simplicity, and order inherent in modernist architecture and by combining different styles or shapes in unexpected ways
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postmodern with regard to music
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Her music does not respect boundaries between sonorities as is sometimes done in postmodern music.
postmodern = experimental or genre-blending music that breaks traditional rules
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Sometimes, especially in the modern and postmodern period, those units slip and slide a little, and the octave doesn't quite contain its meaning, which may, for instance, carry over onto the ninth line, but still, the basic pattern is 8/6.
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postmodern with regard to philosophy
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My grandmother complains that the postmodern worldview too often leaves us without a shared sense of what is right and wrong.
postmodern = rejecting universal truths in favor of multiple perspectives
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That papyrus describing the postmodern condition is forty-five hundred years old. (source)postmodern = rejection of universal truths in favor of multiple perspectives
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But I don't like a lot of the heavy postmodernist anthropology books that seem to dominate the field these days, and in any case those kinds of books aren't easy to come by in Hampton. (source)postmodernist = rejecting universal truths in favor of multiple perspectives
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She told me how her roommate has perfected a way of entering and leaving a room in the loudest manner possible and how she took a Postmodern Fiction class just to fill a course requirement and discovered that she really loved it. (source)
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It's the most modern, or most postmodern, form of Indigenous music I've heard that's both traditional and new-sounding.† (source)postmodern = a worldview that denies the possibility of empirical or valid universal explanations and emphasizes the existence of different worldviews and concepts of reality
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Sometimes influence is direct and obvious, as when the twentieth-century American writer T. Coraghessan Boyle writes "The Overcoat II," a postmodern reworking of the nineteenth-century Russian writer Nikolai Gogol's classic story "The Overcoat," or when William Trevor updates James Joyce's "Two Gallants" with "Two More Gallants," or when John Gardner reworks the medieval Beowulf into his little postmodern masterpiece Grendel. (source)postmodern = rejecting universal truths in favor of multiple perspectives
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Sometimes influence is direct and obvious, as when the twentieth-century American writer T. Coraghessan Boyle writes "The Overcoat II," a postmodern reworking of the nineteenth-century Russian writer Nikolai Gogol's classic story "The Overcoat," or when William Trevor updates James Joyce's "Two Gallants" with "Two More Gallants," or when John Gardner reworks the medieval Beowulf into his little postmodern masterpiece Grendel. (source)
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Many modern and postmodern texts are essentially ironic, in which the allusions to biblical sources are used not to heighten continuities between the religious tradition and the contemporary moment but to illustrate a disparity or disruption. (source)
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In this category we get the grimy London of Dickens's late work, the fabulous postmodern novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison, the plays of Henrik Ibsen and George Bernard Shaw, Seamus Heaney's poetry of the Northern Irish Troubles, and the feminist struggles with the poetic tradition of Eavan Boland and Adrienne Rich and Audre Lord. (source)
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With some writers, particularly modern and postmodern writers, irony is a full-time business, so that as we read them more and more, we come to expect that they will inevitably thwart conventional expectations. (source)postmodern = rejecting universal truths in favor of multiple perspectives
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In bagging Everest, he became the first person to climb all of the Seven Summits, a feat that brought him worldwide renown, spurred a swarm of other weekend climbers to follow in his guided boot-prints, and rudely pulled Everest into the postmodern era.
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postmodern = up-to-date
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