Example Sentences

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In another unmodern twist in this rescue tale, searchers also got help from ham radio.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2025

“I called it the ‘Wyeth Curse,’” said Wanda Corn, a historian of American art, referring to the belief that his work was unmodern and more akin to illustration, and his audience “artistically and politically conservative.”

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2022

In the West we have a particular definition of authenticity and a mania for it as a standard for art, especially art that we envision as elemental, unmodern, unspoiled.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2012

I love this weird, unmodern translation by a modernist.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2012

It was so unmodern; one got so weary of fashionable philanthropy, women who talked of their social sympathies and their principles in life.

From The Desert and the Sown by Foote, Mary Hallock