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That joyful irreverence translated directly into postmodern art, which often both satirized and embraced the breakdown between mainstream culture and self-understood “avant-gardes.”

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Victoria’s astonishingly long reign, from 1837 to 1901, coincided with the triumph of bourgeois norms of behavior among self-understood elites.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Fourier was far more radical than most other self-understood socialists.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

With regards to Israel, this is almost self-understood.

From US News • Dec. 10, 2014

They seemed never before to have weighed much against the abundance of her husband’s kindness and a uniform devotion which had come to be tacit and self-understood.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin