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modernists

n. (plural of modernist English)

Usage examples of "modernists".

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

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.