Words similar to modernist
Example sentences for: modernist
How can you use “modernist” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The flag was the outcome of a standard modernist ritual of self-launching.
Modernist Ice Sculpture
The generic answer is A Time To Be Born (1942)--a dazzling and unsettling evocation of New York City on the verge of World War II, which grabs and holds from Paragraph 1. Still, in many ways, I think Turn, Magic Wheel (1936) is even more perfect--a fleet-footed satire of literary life and celebrity authors (namely Ernest H.), and one of Powell's few "modernist" books.
Also, an essay on why modernist literature is so tedious (Henry James is singled out: "Does anyone like to read him?"
If Davis was losing interest in the tricky harmonies of bop, he was acquiring a more painterly, and no less modernist, approach to sound.