Is merely changing your label postmodern or just good capitalism?. From Wordnik.com. [Lo-Fi Tribe] Reference
There's a lot of pathetic fallacy in postmodern fiction. From Wordnik.com. [My serotonin dealer] Reference
"In what I call the postmodern family," he says, "we have this new image ofthe child as competent and sophisticated. From Wordnik.com. [THE SELLING OF SEX] Reference
The high falutin 'description would be "postmodern" -- an overused word but one that, in this case, perfectly captures where the kids are at. From Wordnik.com. [Save The Hipster!] Reference
(NCT) is also known as postmodern critical theory. From Wordnik.com. [Autism Hub] Reference
Basically he is what elite critics call a postmodern guy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2001] Reference
It's a bit postmodern, which is why copious drinking helps one's understanding of the subject. From Wordnik.com. [Stefan Beck: The Grog Days of Summer (PHOTOS)] Reference
Every four years this tournament reminds that the so-called postmodern "European" identity isn't even skin-deep. From Wordnik.com. [Europe's Bloodsport] Reference
I read it described as the postmodern mindset, which wants everything, but everything to be visible and explained. From Wordnik.com. [Zen and Learning « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
However, in the so-called postmodern days, that becomes so difficult that many of us really think it might be impossible. From Wordnik.com. Reference
To me, that's as much a method of writing as a genre, and maybe it is all down to what Sterling calls a postmodern sensibility. From Wordnik.com. [Why Do I Infernokrush?] Reference
Smith: Even though the idea of originality has been dissected and pulverized by so-called postmodern artists, they are still expected do so in an original way. From Wordnik.com. Reference
But Adair cannot help himself from inserting what might be vulgarly termed postmodern touches: references which remind us where we are and that we are reading a book. From Wordnik.com. [And Then There Was No One by Gilbert Adair] Reference
He narrates the events like some kind of postmodern auctioneer. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
Boonton writes: "postmodern" oppression also exists on the right. From Wordnik.com. [Postmodernism: Private Vice, Public Virtue?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
It will be a kind of postmodern version of premodern Ottoman times. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Orwell Temptation] Reference
All this would indicate that we are moving toward a "postmodern" view of the world. From Wordnik.com. [An Interview with Czeslaw Milosz] Reference
Under these "postmodern" conditions, what was left for English professors to believe and do?. From Wordnik.com. [The Decline and Fall of Literature] Reference
It's the kind of postmodern entertainment that wraps you in an ever-tighter self-conscious hug. From Wordnik.com. [Theater review: Peter Marks on '[title of show]' at Signature Theatre] Reference
At the end of the century, these perceptions had been carried to some wild "postmodern" extremes. From Wordnik.com. [Fanfare For The Common Man] Reference
Oh yeah, part of the reason I avoided Victor Pelevin was because of how "postmodern" he tries to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Helmet of Horror by Victor Pelevin] Reference
We will go on the road like some kind of postmodern, multi-racial, musically disinclined Partridge Family. From Wordnik.com. [Choices! You Be the Judge.] Reference
Indeed, Pentagon theorists conceive of "postmodern" warfare as just another manageable network enterprise. From Wordnik.com. [Network-centric Warfare Dominating Entire Societies Worldwide Through Ubiquitous Surveillance] Reference
The Thousand Autumns is not, as practically every critic has pointed out (some exuberantly), a "postmodern" text. From Wordnik.com. [David Mitchell’s Brilliant Misstep] Reference
There's been a long running pissing contest between "postmodern" and "realist" literature for several decades now. From Wordnik.com. [Is SF Too Geeky?] Reference
Enlargement is also the core of what EU foreign-policy guru Robert Cooper terms Europe's "postmodern" foreign policy. From Wordnik.com. [Open the Doors] Reference
Tribe followed this post with an excellent bullet-point exploration of what that sticky word "postmodern" really means. From Wordnik.com. ["Dig that crazy grave!"] Reference
Thus, although B & B is not recognizably "postmodern," it also is not simply a "realist" novel retreating into the past. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative Strategies] Reference
Some people would have you believe this idea (of the copy without an original, or the simulacrum) is some kind of postmodern thing. From Wordnik.com. [For font bores strictly « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference
Much of the desire for transcendence has to do with the hopeless nihilism engendered by "postmodern" philosophy and mechanistic science. From Wordnik.com. [Bleeping Bleepers] Reference
These are all "postmodern" discussions; deconstructions of the game-space as more than just "when an orc meets an elf, going through the rye.". From Wordnik.com. [The essential paradigm of cyberspace] Reference
It is a term I sometimes use, which seems to include both the more "classically liberal" and the more "postmodern" to at least a certain degree. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Spirit: Part Five] Reference
Books are a form of nostalgia, publishing them it is a way of fishing your heart from the disposal, wiping it off, learning to call the ugly parts "postmodern,". From Wordnik.com. [Things I've Learned About Writing] Reference
I cannot think of anyone more likely to have ridiculed a "postmodern" conference on the work of Fleming and the semiotics of Bond than the author of this passage. From Wordnik.com. [Bottoms Up] Reference
There still persists a tradition of anti-traditional writing, but to identify new works that exemplify this traditon as "postmodern" no longer offers much illumination. From Wordnik.com. [Postmodernism] Reference
This is all a joke right, or some kind of postmodern performance art?. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Americans already have a kind of postmodern polygamy available to them. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
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