Example Sentences

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There is a certain antimodern, punitive aspect to these discussions.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2023

I like what the historian Frederick Cooper says: scholars should stop “shoehorning political discourse into modern, antimodern, or postmodern discourses” and instead “listen to what is being said in the world.”

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2016

His methods paved the way for modern detection, and yet it's harder to imagine a more antimodern figure.

From Salon • Jul. 31, 2011

Nothing irritates Maritain more than to be accused of reaction or medievalism; he insists that his "antimodern" position is actually "ultra-modern."

From Time Magazine Archive

But in the 19th century there were still too many tugs in antimodern directions, too many elements of life either stifling or civilizing, depending on one's viewpoint, to allow mere anarchy.

From Time Magazine Archive