as in liberals
a person with very modern ideas
a time when Paris was the center of the universe for modernists in the art world
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But Anderson also knows that the moral purity of revolutionaries gets boring pretty fast.—
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Based on Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel Vineland, the thriller focuses on a group of ex-revolutionaries who reunite to face an enemy resurfacing after 16 years.—
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“Modernists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/modernists. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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