postmodernist architecture. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Perhaps the strangest element of Auster’s reputation as an American postmodernist is that his language never registers this kind of absence at the level of the sentence. From Wordnik.com. [Why James Wood is so Good…] Reference
What kind of postmodernist are you!? brought to you by Quizilla. From Wordnik.com. [Which kind of postmodernist are you? « Skid Roche] Reference
Palin makes more sense if you view her through a "postmodernist" lens. From Wordnik.com. [Palin Took Heat For Giggling After Radio Show Host Attacked Opponent As "Bitch"] Reference
McElroy's erudite "postmodernist" fiction also needs to be read with an ear to other disciplines and earlier literature. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
An arid "postmodernist" scholasticism currently dominates much of the study of literature and has spread from it to other humanistic disciplines. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
So, if the Turner Contemporary Art Centre is filled with all that kind of postmodernist nonsense, would it really be surprising if it gets up people's noses?. From Wordnik.com. [Kos RSS Feed] Reference
He’s some kind of postmodernist poet, doesn’t go big on punctuation. From Wordnik.com. [loltrek, the lol of lols « raincoaster] Reference
(including our present 'postmodernist') justify their sophomoric cynicism about science and scientific objectivity. From Wordnik.com. [Inside Higher Ed] Reference
Yet Mr. Obama is by no means a complete postmodernist. From Wordnik.com. [The Audacity of Barack Obama] Reference
A postmodernist pastiche with heart -- and style to burn. From Wordnik.com. [Ansen's Top 15] Reference
He leaned back against crumbling postmodernist plasterwork. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Or the postmodernist notion of "de-centered" consciousness?. From Wordnik.com. ['The Decline & Fall of Literature': An Exchange] Reference
Some of her work also bears an affinity to postmodernist theories. From Wordnik.com. [Nehama Leibowitz.] Reference
The postmodernist landscape of this election is interesting to see. From Wordnik.com. [CNN's Candy Crowley: Not My Role To Judge Who The Bigger Liar Is] Reference
And (2) if you've got a postmodernist photographer for a friend, you don't need an enemy. From Wordnik.com. [A House Is Not A Home] Reference
Isaiah Berlin as a 'Savile Row postmodernist' were capable of causing just as much outrage. From Wordnik.com. ['Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography'] Reference
I have criticized postmodernist attacks on reason and objectivity in print for about ten years. From Wordnik.com. [Feminism and Philosophy: An Exchange] Reference
Such are the perils of these postmodernist times: even our love stories feed off borrowed emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Bang, Bang, Kiss, Kiss] Reference
She is a postmodernist of some sort, but Moser, perhaps wisely, does not attempt any label at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Brazilian Sphinx] Reference
After all, a postmodernist has the luxury in believing in the accrual of simulacra and related phenomena. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Thill: Postmodernists and Profiteers] Reference
Like Koons, however, Fritsch is right out there on the cutting-make that gnawing-edge of postmodernist art. From Wordnik.com. [Invasion Of The Rat-King] Reference
"As a kind of postmodernist myself, let me say that this statement shows some ignorance of THAT perspective. From Wordnik.com. [ScreenTalk] Reference
Is it clever or arrogant – postmodernist or lazy – to stay quite so close to home in the creation of a role?. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Amstell, Larry David and the rise of the 'sim-com'] Reference
Last 5 Entries: postmodernist - 19.07.08 the dark - 02.07.08 moving office - 14.06.08 daughter shaman - 10.06.08. From Wordnik.com. [phluid61 Diary Entry] Reference
Indeed, that he is able to read postmodernist texts closely and discursively testifies to their intelligibility. From Wordnik.com. [Postmodernism] Reference
At the heart of the new approach is the postmodernist idea that we don't so much perceive the world as interpret it. From Wordnik.com. [Rewriting Life Stories] Reference
The humanities have been gutted by four decades of pretentious postmodernist theory and insular identity politics. From Wordnik.com. [Notable] Reference
Mr. Wallace's novels may revel in exuberant farce and showcase his linguistic dexterity, but he was no glib postmodernist. From Wordnik.com. [Wallace's Too-Bright Fire] Reference
Even the postmodernist project of deconstructing Enlightenment selfhood finds, as Michel Foucault does, a precursor in Weber. From Wordnik.com. [Asthmatic] Reference
Indeed, leading public intellectuals in India have generally taken a postmodernist stance of suspicion towards modern science. From Wordnik.com. [Is India a science superpower?] Reference
Lagerfeld was an encyclopedia of retro who reworked fantasies of the past for Chloé — a postmodernist before the term was coined. From Wordnik.com. [Kaiser Karl: Behind the Mask] Reference
But this is not exactly new and blamable on English departments, unless we're going to rank Machiavelli or Goebbels a postmodernist. From Wordnik.com. [Mukasey and Digby Give Postmodernism a Bad Name] Reference
Alan Sokal, a physicist decided to write a piece of gibberish and submit it to a learned journal specialising in postmodernist writings. From Wordnik.com. [Social Institutions] Reference
ALEX BAGSkewering the Art WorldWHAT COULD BE WORSE FOR a budding postmodernist than "boring humanities classes" and actually learning something about history?. From Wordnik.com. [New Faces Of 1996] Reference
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