Example sentences for: postmodern

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

  • Not a whodunnit at all, it's more like a postmodern western, the parable of an unruly patriarch driven to madness by a long line of unruly patriarchs before him; an impotent vigilante in search of something--anything--to shoot.

  • Reviews have been mixed, but smart critics who should have known better have dismissed Broomfield's journalistic malevolence as fun, wacky, postmodern, an expose of the seamy underbelly of fame by a renegade who eschews the boring objectivity of the documentary tradition.

  • It alone "truly exceeded its advance hype," says People . Canadian director Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter, about a school-bus accident, also impresses critics, winning him plaudits as a "postmodern Hitchcock" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Other favorites include Donnie Brasco, The Wings of the Dove, and Face/Off, while the well-reviewed Boogie Nights and Titanic both fail to make many lists.

  • They're self-conscious, postmodern comments on crudely sexualized violent films.

  • It's this sort of postmodern news story that I love the most, because you're not sure if it makes you want to laugh or cry.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast