Such efforts at synthesis were paralleled by two other thrusts in Italian modernist circles. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The name modernist then will be appropriate only when there is question of opposition to the certain teaching of ecclesiastical authority through a spirit of innovation. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
It will surprise no one to learn that the New-Critical approach to poetry that still dominates our classroom practice enshrines certain modernist preferences as general laws. From Wordnik.com. [How to Save 'Tintern Abbey' from New-Critical Pedagogy (in Three Minutes Fifty-Six Seconds)] Reference
Francesca Woodman has been called a modernist, a surrealist and, even, a gothic artist. From Wordnik.com. [Francesca Woodman – review] Reference
The official Latin text calls the modernist dogmatic system a leading chapter in their doctrine. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
But he had the most amazing list of -- of so-called modernist writers, and he was very profligate. From Wordnik.com. [Book Business: Publishing: Past, Present, and Future] Reference
I sometimes wonder if architect Louis Sullivan, perhaps busily spinning in his grave, regrets coining the modernist credo. From Wordnik.com. [2 Blowhards] Reference
He was labelled a modernist provocateur as he snapped up piles of bricks and unmade beds, championing art that was controversial. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
These are not subtle, marginal differences, but indisputable polarization in what we might call the modernist-traditional divide. From Wordnik.com. [Crosscut] Reference
Not every novelty is to be condemned, nor is every project of reform to be dubbed modernist because it is untimely or exaggerated. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Rightly described as a modernist icon and one of the country's architectural landmarks, this contemporary art gallery is full of surprises. From Wordnik.com. [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
This move to locate the organising principles of the universe in human embodied experience could be described as a modernist, secular incarnational move. From Wordnik.com. [Tim Chester] Reference
The first chapter of that 265,000-word modernist milestone is relatively straightforward and you should be able to breeze through it and catch up pretty easily. From Wordnik.com. [Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com] Reference
The prices were often displayed next to the paintings, to show how corrupt art dealers had secretively spent huge amounts of public moneys on so-called modernist rubbish. From Wordnik.com. ["Addled Art": dishonest art dealers] Reference
It is a very "modernist" approach to only examine the physical. From Wordnik.com. [Digging Up David - Anil Dash] Reference
I am a "modernist" I fear, in regard to being caught up in haste and untidiness. From Wordnik.com. [Vatican Council II: An Open Discussion] Reference
Has our definition of "modernist" evolved to the stage where it simply means "chaotic"?. From Wordnik.com. [Canonical Writers] Reference
Carter's music engages the European "modernist" past (albeit from an American perspective). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
Talented "modernist" architects do not begin design by preselecting a style, whether traditional or modern in origin. From Wordnik.com. ['Modern' architecture can be hard to nail down] Reference
As Prozium suggests, this was because of his German roots and because of his 'modernist' sympathies. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing American] Reference
"modernist" wings of both groups, but by smaller margins than did Mr Kerry. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
The thing about that clean, spare, modernist look is, it doesn't age well. From Wordnik.com. [Our Life As A House] Reference
Kishi has always been a modernist but with a clear debt to his own culture. From Wordnik.com. [REDESIGNING THE WORLD] Reference
Can historic modernist homes be treasured, shown, and monetized like Warhols and Gauguins?. From Wordnik.com. [People Who Buy Glass Houses] Reference
But apart from a high-tech, modernist veneer, it looked far more like a throwback to the cold war. From Wordnik.com. [A Goose Step Into The Future] Reference
Gwathmey-Siegel's addition is meant to be a clean, modernist backdrop to Wright's dramatically organic icon. From Wordnik.com. [Do The Wright Thing] Reference
Gillespie's generation brought the modernist esthetic to jazz: a once demotic music suddenly bristled with difficulty. From Wordnik.com. [Jazz's Last Hero Trumpeter] Reference
By contrast, with modernist homes (or historically significant homes more generally) the universe of potential buyers is small. From Wordnik.com. [People Who Buy Glass Houses] Reference
To believe that artists will manage to keep creating against all odds is to ignore how close modernist culture came to obliteration. From Wordnik.com. [Exiles On Main St.] Reference
A few years later, the Japanese architect Tadao Ando, revered for his austere modernist designs in concrete, was honored at Versailles. From Wordnik.com. [Arts Extra: Designing Men] Reference
In his new book, he rejects modernist virtuosity in favor of a nobly old-fashioned realism, studded with inversions ( "a frenetic he was"). From Wordnik.com. [A Long Literary Sleep] Reference
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