Example sentences for: postmodern

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

  • In a book called In Theory --a wholesale slaughter of the sacred cows of the postmodern Western intelligentsia--the Indian Marxist literary critic Aijaz Ahmad raised further questions about Said's mastery of his sources and accused him of self-aggrandizement and insufficient political discipline.

  • Barnum of the Postmodern World" and "Of Angels and Pig-Faced Ladies: Disordering Victorian Desire."

  • Literary fashion is elusive; what in the 1960s might have seemed like an apotheosis of modernism had, by the decidedly postmodern 1990s, come to seem old hat.

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

  • 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.


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