What is "modernist"

Usage examples of "modernist".

Let him take it for granted in the fashion of the strictly aesthetic commentator who writes in sympathy with a Fra Angelico painting, or as that great modernist, Paul Sabatier, does as he approaches the problems of faith in the life of St.

Zhukovsky, Batyushkov was a modernist in verse and language, a continuer of the work of Karamzin, and a resolute enemy of Church Slavonic and archaistic rudeness.

Yet not only the modernists Zesen and Birken, but Buchner and Logau as well, rejected all dialects as vehicles of poetry.

The romantics and the modernists alike misconceived evolution in melioristic or moralizing terms.

I was in charge of a bofors gun manned by the most ferocious pack of modernist architecture students from the Architects Institute in Portland Place.

We might characterise this view by saying that Vladimir and Estragon prove themselves in the end to have a modernist attitude to the fragmentation of truths and values which we have seen in the twentieth century.

Making public such truths is an exemplary Enlightenment project of modernist politics, and the critique of it in these contexts could serve only to aid the mystificatory and repressive powers of the regime under attack.

There is scarcely a religion that has not its Bahaism, its Modernists, its Brahmo Somaj, its "religion without theology," its attempts to escape from old forms and hampering associations to that living and world-wide spiritual reality upon which the human mind almost instinctively insists.

The old Eurocentric modernists used to whine that "we had the experience, but missed the meaning" (T.

The modernists were convinced that if China was ever to rise into the twentieth century as a viable power, it had to adopt the ways of the West—at least for some time to come.

One of the modernists, an official of the "highest rank," was mounting a Hong Kong operation.

One was to ensure that the modernists would eventually have their way in the Crown Colony.

I understand that you modernists attach no great importance to a mere facade, it's the plan that counts with you, quite rightly, and we wouldn't think of altering your plan in any way, it's the logic of the plan that sold us on the building.

In all these arts the modernists are trying to reduce everything to manipulation of technique.

Because the modernists believe that there is an idea behind the primitives they call Indian art conceptual.