How to Use modernism in a Sentence

modernism

noun

• The Red Studio is among the most gorgeous lodestars in all of modernism.
  — Vulture, 3 May 2022
• The guest rooms and suites combine French chic with Dutch modernism.
  — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• That, in essence, was the dream of 20th-century modernism.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
• And the modernism of the past century remains ever-present.
  — Amy Verner, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2021
• The building’s modernism seemed refreshing, up to a point.
  — Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 2 Aug. 2021
• Ernesto’s work — the civic promise of modernism and his own warm version of it — inspired Richard to join the profession.
  — New York Times, 18 Dec. 2021
• Is this a terrible break from Lever House’s sleek modernism?
  — Audrey Wachs, Curbed, 14 Mar. 2022
• With the invention of collage in 1912, the Cubists opened a second path for modernism.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2022
• The lobby, guest rooms, spa and two pools combine a clubby modernism and dolce far niente, while heart-skipping views of the Dolomites backdrop it all.
  — Andrew Nelson, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2022
• That’s why the history of modernism is often cast as the history of a failure.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
• This room showed me that there are ways to push modernism into something that is really baroque.
  — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 6 Sep. 2022
• And yet, in the realm of mid-century poetry, rhymesters of either camp were up against the arid abstentions of high modernism.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• The mild-mannered modernism of his early works, sampled at the New Museum, affords no hints to the contrary.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• In the movies, modernism is almost always a field of male power, whether or not a critique is intended.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2022
• Early Danish modernism has not been one of the museum’s strengths, at least not until now.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 11 Sep. 2022
• Mann’s new style is modernism in a high-bourgeois mode, as byzantine in its layering as anything in Joyce.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
• But in terms of the tree of art history, of modernism, Hopper’s line really doesn’t go anywhere.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2023
• Hopper has always been part of the bad conscience of American modernism.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2022
• The entire collection of art spans 500 years, from the Renaissance to modernism's masters.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2022
• The label rose to fame during the decade, after all, thanks to its refreshing modernism and futurism.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2022
• As modernism settles into the distant past, the role of French artist Paul Cézanne in forging that movement has never seemed more certain.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• In the 20th century, modernism took hold in homes (think: stark white walls and geometric shapes), causing floral prints to fall out of favor.
  — Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Nov. 2021
• With its low-slung form, deep overhangs, and emphasis on outdoor space, this house is a clear descendant of desert modernism.
  — Lydia Lee, ELLE Decor, 21 Sep. 2022
• The novel aesthetic of Art Nouveau wrapped modernism in the garb of pleasure, instead of in the hair shirt of social obligation and moral uplift.
  — Regina Cole, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
• Its deliberate use of local wood, warm tones, and festive plaids emits a chalet-style warmth rather than stoic modernism.
  — Monica Mendal, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2024
• Other artists, like Juan Gris, came slightly later to the party but have also been inducted into the modernism hall of fame.
  — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
• Soon after, his work began to evolve farther away from the traditional style and into modernism.
  — Susannah Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2022
• The standout is the primary suite, which features a dining room that can seat up to 32 people, a two-room kitchen, a living room, a wine cellar, and a guest house that is the epitome of desert modernism.
  — Jada Jackson, House Beautiful, 14 May 2021
• Richard Wright’s time at the FWP was marked by a honing of his literary craft toward a new kind of modernism that was unabashedly political.
  — Max Holleran, The New Republic, 15 June 2021
• More troublesome still is Bill (Jay Duplass), a rock-star professor of modernism in a state of catastrophe after his wife’s death.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024