pseudo-modern

Vast expanses of urban sprawl and suburban development are now covered in estates of houses and "executive" apartments, built flimsily in the pastiche or some pseudo-modern blandness.

John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2007

As Iran has shown, Islamic extremism is the psychological defense mechanism of many urbanized peasants threatened with the loss of traditions in pseudo-modern cities where their values are under attack, where basic services like water and electricity are unavailable, and where they are assaulted by a physically unhealthy environment.

The Coming Anarchy 1994

As Iran has shown, Islamic extremism is the psychological defense mechanism of many urbanized peasants threatened with the loss of traditions in pseudo-modern cities where their values are under attack, where basic services like water and electricity are unavailable, and where they are assaulted by a physically unhealthy environment.

The Coming Anarchy 1994

A pseudo-modern text lasts an exceptionally brief time.

datenschmutz newsfeed: web 2.0 medien.kultur.technik 2010

The pseudo-modern womens are least bothered about safety of women.

rediff.com 2009

This champion of the emerging abstract expressionists attacked the lack of correct intellectual underpinnings in the work of the early American modernists and wrote that the importance of O’Keeffe’s “pseudo-modern art is almost entirely historical and symptomatic.”

Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986