Example sentences for: modernism

How can you use “modernism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Joyce, the high priest of literary Modernism, imagined and interpreted Dublin for the world in Ulysses (you’ll see references to it all over).

  • The museum was created in 1967 to house works of classical modernism, thanks to a legacy of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, a member of the Expressionist group Die Brücke which worked in Dresden from 1905 to 1913.

  • The obvious question about Matisse is how a seed merchant's son from France's ugly and smelly industrial north became both an inventor of modernism and a master of Mediterranean color and light.

  • She knew that modernism was a work in progress, not a new system to be defended to the death.

  • Depending on whom you consult, following her apprenticeship in suffering Woolf became the woman who wrote To The Lighthouse and The Waves , a stream-of-consciousness pioneer and a cool, ethereal priestess of high modernism.


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