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- adjective Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of
postmodernism , especially as represented inart ,architecture ,literature ,science , orphilosophy thatreacts against anearlier modernism .
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Examples
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I write about Cuny not just because he became a friend who touched all who knew him, but because his world was the world in which I am interested here, and his engagements on some of the battlefields of what is often called post-modern warfare show the scope and complexity of finding international solutions to local or regional crises.
DELIVER US FROM EVIL William Shawcross 2000
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I write about Cuny not just because he became a friend who touched all who knew him, but because his world was the world in which I am interested here, and his engagements on some of the battlefields of what is often called post-modern warfare show the scope and complexity of finding international solutions to local or regional crises.
DELIVER US FROM EVIL William Shawcross 2000
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The corner of Broadway and Melrose, in the heart of Chicago's Boystown, had become a post-modern Sodom and Gomorra.
Jacqueline Edelberg: It Gets Better, Starting in Elementary School Jacqueline Edelberg 2011
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However, there are some excellent 'old labour 'style policies I'd vote for, unfortunately allied to post-modern, psuedo-sciencey rubbish that reads like the ramblings of a drugged horse (halts to stem cell research, animal experimentation and a promotion of alternative therpaies etc).
The murky politics of the Green Party Norfolk Blogger 2009
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The problem is that even these would be rewritten and restructured to support a post-modern liberal view.
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The corner of Broadway and Melrose, in the heart of Chicago's Boystown, had become a post-modern Sodom and Gomorra.
Jacqueline Edelberg: It Gets Better, Starting in Elementary School Jacqueline Edelberg 2011
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This place (beautiful, by the way) looks like a post-modern cathedral.
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Only a post-modern, multi-cultural, cultural-relative, non-rational analysis could conclude that corruption was subjective.
The Cause of Corruption, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Or maybe they go for comedy and make Barbie a distaff Don Quixote who sails through life thinking everything is as perfect as her smile (à la the post-modern masterpiece known as The Brady Bunch Movie)?
The Barbie movie: Plastic fantastic or dollpocalypse now? | EW.com 2009
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The Oscars tend to try to go a little more outside the box — although that backfired when they went for the James Franco-Anne Hathaway pairing, where there was no chemistry and Franco's self-consciously post-modern/social media approach was a complete misfire.
Ask Matt: Why We Love The Middle, Tonys-vs-Oscars, Glee Project, Grey's and More! 2011
whichbe commented on the word post-modern
Despite the pretentious, recoil-worthy associations with this word, I do like a few post-modern philosophers, like Baudrillard. It's funny, though, because for all the good ideas I can find in the rhetoric, "post-modern art" almost always completely sucks. Perhaps it's something meant to be observed and not intended.
December 3, 2008