Example sentences for: modernism

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

  • In clothing, optical chaos offered up as carefully unbecoming unbeauty is meant to refer to the idea of modernism rather than embracing it directly, in bodily terms.

  • "Schiele is one of modernism's more exotic honorable mentions," says the New York Times ' Holland Cotter.

  • Bennett and Mrs. Brown," the defense of modernism she delivered before a puzzled Cambridge audience in 1924, seems, in retrospect, wiser and more realistic than just about everything else on the subject.

  • Nazi photography was correspondence-school modernism, only scarier.

  • 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.


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