Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes.
- adjective Of or relating to an intellectual stance often marked by eclecticism and irony and tending to reject the universal validity of such principles as hierarchy, binary opposition, categorization, and stable identity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of
postmodernism , especially as represented inart ,architecture ,literature ,science , orphilosophy thatreacts against anearlier modernism . - noun A
postmodernist .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to postmodernism
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Examples
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Without even trying, American TV watchers have developed an amazingly sophisticated view of postmodernism, even if they would never use the word postmodern in any conversation or even be able to define it.14 However, this was still a new idea in 1994.
Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television Chuck Klosterman 2009
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Without even trying, American TV watchers have developed an amazingly sophisticated view of postmodernism, even if they would never use the word postmodern in any conversation or even be able to define it.14 However, this was still a new idea in 1994.
What Happens When People Stop Being Polite Chuck Klosterman 2004
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Without even trying, American TV watchers have developed an amazingly sophisticated view of postmodernism, even if they would never use the word postmodern in any conversation or even be able to define it.14 However, this was still a new idea in 1994.
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs Chuck Klosterman 2003
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Without even trying, American TV watchers have developed an amazingly sophisticated view of postmodernism, even if they would never use the word postmodern in any conversation or even be able to define it.14 However, this was still a new idea in 1994.
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs Chuck Klosterman 2003
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Without even trying, American TV watchers have developed an amazingly sophisticated view of postmodernism, even if they would never use the word postmodern in any conversation or even be able to define it.14 However, this was still a new idea in 1994.
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs Chuck Klosterman 2003
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Messrs. Heilleman and Halperin speak of what they call postmodern politics as "a meat grinder/flesh incinerator."
Road to the Nut House Peggy Noonan 2010
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Messrs. Heilleman and Halperin speak of what they call postmodern politics as "a meat grinder/flesh incinerator."
Road to the Nut House Peggy Noonan 2010
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Messrs. Heilleman and Halperin speak of what they call postmodern politics as "a meat grinder/flesh incinerator."
Road to the Nut House Peggy Noonan 2010
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Messrs. Heilleman and Halperin speak of what they call postmodern politics as "a meat grinder/flesh incinerator."
Road to the Nut House Peggy Noonan 2010
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Messrs. Heilleman and Halperin speak of what they call postmodern politics as "a meat grinder/flesh incinerator."
Road to the Nut House Peggy Noonan 2010
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