Example sentences for: postmodern

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

  • We get a glimpse of the car, refracted through a blender's thick glass and reflected in a computer screen--our eyes going from the most traditional appliance to the most modern to this postmodern vehicle, which, we assume by now, is powered by electricity, not gasoline.

  • 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.

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

  • It's ironic, too, that critics such as MacGregor persist in seeing Darger as an unself-conscious obsessive, unable to separate his life from his created fantasy world, since in fact Darger's work is full of precisely the sort of self-referentiality that in a contemporary insider artist would be read as a rather ordinary example of postmodern detachment.

  • C-SPAN's factual focus and lack of visual razzle-dazzle are a welcome relief from postmodern infotainment programs.


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