Example sentences for: postmodern

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

  • This is our best defense against postmodern angst: To critically look at and anticipate the cultural and social changes spurred by the rapid development of technology

  • Just as waves of Ashleys and Brittanys are succeeded by hordes of Maxes and Sadies, so the postmodern bricolage names of the '70s and '80s have been replaced by the retro labels of the '90s.

  • He calls Eastwood "one of the great ironists of the age" and a "postmodern" hero: "Clint's gift," he writes, forever on a first-name basis with his subject, "is to let us see the dark comedy in the American male's contorting, distorting attempts to achieve his masteries of the moment while at the same time not entirely discrediting the tradition that makes him bid that effort."

  • Book -- Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science , by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont;

  • Rootless and lonely, Toru Okada plods across his strenuously postmodern space.


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