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Example sentences for: modernist

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Clay Pigeons gets off to a jolly start before petering out into hiply modernist irresolution.
Formalist art is not the same as formal art, and though Joyce is a Modernist, he is no longer quite modern.
The result is a fairly schematic narrative: The young hothead of the early Celtic Revivalist years produces lovely impracticalities until 1914, when Ireland explodes; he learns about reality, becomes a great poet of civil war, and a modernist to boot; after 1925, or thereabouts, he becomes one of those "monuments of unageing intellect" about whom he writes in "Sailing to Byzantium"--the splendid complainer of the late verse.
The title of the Boston show has a double meaning: the work Monet created during the 20 th century, and his work in relation to the various Modernist movements of the 20 th century.
Singer is very good at evoking the palimpsest imprints of his characters' layered lives in a way that gives them more modernist complexity than his rather conventional conception of character and plot might otherwise have allowed for.