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  • noun Plural form of postmodern.

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  • I did so in order to evade criticisms of Wordsworth's egotistical sublime, and so also to evade the heritage of confessional writing against which my postmoderns were attempting to define themselves.

    Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism 2003

  • Yet all too often, we postmoderns play fast and loose with them.

    John Backman: Names Can Never Hurt Me? John Backman 2011

  • Yet the inevitable fact of interpretation does not provide a license, as postmoderns argue, to design "narratives" as one likes, as if the past is the plaything for the writer to push an agenda or display his imagination.

    The Visionary Generation James W. Ceaser 2011

  • Yet all too often, we postmoderns play fast and loose with them.

    John Backman: Names Can Never Hurt Me? John Backman 2011

  • And we liberal postmoderns tend to love victims -- often more than we love truth.

    Carter Phipps: What Ever Happened to Truth? 2009

  • Postmodernism, Wittgenstein, etc. (in some ways tagging an absolute fulfillment of posmodern ideas — readers and taggers are better at saying what the b ooks are about, like what postmoderns say)

    inkblurt · IA Summit 2006 Opening Plenary — David Weinberger 2006

  • Course all us postmoderns have damn near willed reality into a complementary role, the medium through which my brilliance burns.

    Destiny Time Three James Killus 2008

  • Wright, a talented theologian, brings to bear the riches of the Christian tradition in a way that 21st century postmoderns can hear and respect.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Burke's Corner 2008

  • Today Major League Baseball, which once made tradition and history its cornerstone, is reduced to mimicking the postmoderns, namely the NBA and the NHL.

    Starr Gazing: More Meaningless Play 2008

  • In effect, postmoderns demand civilized behaviour from westerners, hold the West to accountability, but "it is as if non-white, non-western people are inherently backward and -- almost like children -- cannot be expected to act any better."

    Daimnation!: Toleration in moderation 2008

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