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modernism

[mod-er-niz-uhm] / ˈmɒd ərˌnɪz əm /


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With the rise of modernism, Ives’s highly allusive and often experimental music found a suitable audience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

“Tucked behind mature hedging on one of Malibu’s most desirable streets, this exquisite estate presents a striking blend of California modernism and rustic refinement,” the listing noted.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

She said her focus was following in the footsteps of Tennessee Williams and the other greats of American modernism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

All three of us share a focus on researching, archiving and documenting Black modernism and space.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

I think he's writing about the long poem after modernism or something like that.

From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz

The score for “X” traffics in multiple modernisms.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2022

Anderson expresses a fan’s zeal and a collector’s greed for both canonical works and weird odds and ends, a love for old modernisms that is undogmatic and unsentimental.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2021

Instead, they look to South America and Concrete art, with its cross-fertilization of imported European and indigenous modernisms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2018

The view that there were many modernisms is now commonplace.

From Economist ● Oct. 26, 2017

The cheerful paper-hangings have the air of belonging to the old walls; and such modernisms as astral lamps, card-tables, gilded Cologne-bottles, silver taper-stands, and bronze and alabaster flower-vases do not seem at all impertinent.

From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. by Nathaniel Hawthorne


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