How to Use modernism in a Sentence

modernism

noun
  • Sometimes modernism can be a bit cold and austere, but this wasn’t like that.
    — The Editors Of Ad, Architectural Digest, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Others hold the key to early modernism.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The guest rooms and suites combine French chic with Dutch modernism.
    — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • In his younger years, he was attracted to a severe modernism.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020
  • His plan, too, is a work of modernism, vividly painted and highly styled.
    — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 11 June 2019
  • This was the year that deconstruction and modernism were born.
    — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The Red Studio is among the most gorgeous lodestars in all of modernism.
    — Vulture, 3 May 2022
  • This room showed me that there are ways to push modernism into something that is really baroque.
    — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 6 Sep. 2022
  • At that moment, modernism was rolling across the Atlantic like a tsunami.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 12 May 2017
  • Other rooms offer comfort paired with modernism and bone-chilling views.
    — Tj MacIas, Sacbee.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The truth is, the legacy of modernism still works against the making of beautiful public space.
    — Michael J. Lewis, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
  • High modernism, on the other hand, was the grid—easier to survey, tax, and police.
    — Nikil Saval, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Anti-modernism is thus the basic gestalt of Catholicism in the modern era.
    — R. R. Reno, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2018
  • But the review points to the very way in which Sands expands what modernism, and modernity, can be.
    — Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • One of the big themes in the show is humanizing modernism through what is happening during this time.
    — Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • That’s why the history of modernism is often cast as the history of a failure.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The group began as almost exclusively white and male, and was averse to modernism and other new art forms.
    — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The Genesis typeface is seamless in the back, so the flushness of modernism is very much here.
    — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2018
  • How could a tastemaker who preached the gospel of modernism become a convert to the baubles and trimmings of postmodernism?
    — Mary Ann Gwinn, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
  • Secular modernism has tried to get the fruits of the Jesus-message without the roots.
    — Time, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The Parisians’ love of tradition and romance combined with its youthful modernism is the pull for me.
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 24 May 2025
  • This Park City stunner is what happens when sleek modernism meets après-ski luxury.
    — Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 26 Jan. 2026
  • This area is a blend of cutting-edge modernism and historic industrial buildings.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 May 2026
  • Over at the Sharonville Convention Center, modernism is all the rage.
    — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 17 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • Their careers lasted from the early years of modernism through pop art of the 1960s and beyond.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2026
  • But both play with a little breathing room between the gems, giving these designs a distinct sense of modernism and lightness.
    — Jill Newman, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The first 20 years of the 20th century can be read in large measure as backlash against modernism.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • But finding his last home—the final design from the man who helped define desert modernism—is something else entirely.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2025
  • 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

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