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Example sentences for: modernist

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The Bauhaus design school introduced the idea that good design could be had by anyone; in the 1950s the Bauhaus aesthetic led to the American manufacture of such modernist (but still too pricey) classics as Charles Eames' lounge chair and ottoman and Arne Jacobsen's Egg Chair.
Tragically left in ruins: gorgeous Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Modernist buildings.
Stevens offers a double liberation: first from meaning, then from modernist meaninglessness.
Now, critics declare him a cerebral modernist who eschewed convention: He used "a nineteenth-century vocabulary but speaks with a twentieth-century voice" (Alex Ross, The New Yorker ). The revisionists rate him one of the century's great composers.
Also, an essay on why modernist literature is so tedious (Henry James is singled out: "Does anyone like to read him?"