Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

modernisms

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The score for “X” traffics in multiple modernisms.

From New York Times • May 12, 2022

Instead, they look to South America and Concrete art, with its cross-fertilization of imported European and indigenous modernisms.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2018

The view that there were many modernisms is now commonplace.

From Economist • Oct. 26, 2017

There he produced a stream of paintings that synthesized Cubism and other European modernisms, mixed in non-Western motifs and mysterious symbols and culminated in his lusty, elegiac German Officer paintings.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2014

His modernisms were out of tune with the present strain of my aspirations, and I did not find the unexpected word and the eccentricities of expression which were, and are still, so dear to me.

From Confessions of a Young Man by Moore, George (George Augustus)