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  • adverb In a postmodern way.

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Examples

  • And it arranged its wine list by price, which she thought was postmodernly classy.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • And it arranged its wine list by price, which she thought was postmodernly classy.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • And it arranged its wine list by price, which she thought was postmodernly classy.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • Which means, again, that Gossip Girl, in a postmodernly ultimately referential yet referentially undermining way, leaches out any and all available narrative coherence, leaving only barely-tethered icons, and a lot of designer labels.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Becca 2008

  • Which means, again, that Gossip Girl, in a postmodernly ultimately referential yet referentially undermining way, leaches out any and all available narrative coherence, leaving only barely-tethered icons, and a lot of designer labels.

    Now I Get It Becca 2008

  • They tend to be more postmodernly cynical about the system.

    Philocrites: December 2003 Archives 2003

  • They tend to be more postmodernly cynical about the system.

    Philocrites: Damn Nader. 2003

  • * Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any more postmodernly out-there than Chris Nakashima-Brown ...

    Warren Ellis 2009

  • If you look at the trilogy, in each of those books I intentionally took one aspect of the hero's journey and played with it, turned it on its head, and tried very hard to look at it postmodernly, in which I as a writer was aware of the tropes of the genre while writing and expected readers to be aware of them, to be able to grasp the full fun of what I was doing.

    Pat's Fantasy Hotlist 2010

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