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词汇 postmodernist
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Definition of postmodernist in English:

postmodernist

noun ˌpəʊstˈmɒdənɪstˌpoʊs(t)ˈmɑdərnɪst
  • A believer in or supporter of postmodernism.

    postmodernists rejected the search for broad generalizations
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Unlike most postmodernists, he doesn't enervate the past or its ideas with condescension.
    • Postmodernists are disillusioned with this triumphalist view of science dispelling ignorance and making the world a better place.
    • Postmodernists, by the very definition, like to dabble.
    • This critique of modernist nationalism-as-mental-colonialism has come to serve as the fig leaf for the postmodernists.
    • Social constructivist theories of science nicely complement postmodernists' angst against science.
    • Postmodernists prefer local traditions which are not entirely led by rational and instrumental criteria, but make room for the sacred and even the irrational.
    • He is careful to add that he is no postmodernist.
    • In all the areas we have looked at, there are very vigorous alternative intellectual traditions outside those promoted by postmodernists.
    • Does that mean that the door is wide open for any interpretation, constrained, as the postmodernists would have it, only by intertextuality?
    • They are the much-misunderstood gurus of postmodernists.
adjective ˌpəʊstˈmɒdənɪstˌpoʊs(t)ˈmɑdərnɪst
  • Of or associated with postmodernism.

    postmodernist theory
    postmodernist art
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I am far from the first to emphasize what has been regarded by many as our quintessential postmodernist predicament.
    • The works nicely evoked the familiar postmodernist theme of cultural objects returning to nature.
    • Her intellectually provocative essay on the songs is touched by fashionable postmodernist ideas.
    • Both the copies and the rubbings are completely different in spirit from postmodernist appropriation.
    • The music is far from being a reheated postmodernist stew.
    • His ostensibly modernist abstractions are constructed, to an extent, like postmodernist pastiches.
    • It combines the postmodernist use of heuristic concepts with a Chinese tradition of philological inquiry.
    • This quirky, sumptuous body of work presaged the ideas of many postmodernist image manipulators.
    • The mechanically reproduced images evoke a seemingly unlikely affinity with postmodernist concerns.
    • Her medium and subject matter flew in the face of traditional figurative aesthetics, feminist proprieties, and postmodernist biases, all at once.

Definition of postmodernist in US English:

postmodernist

nounˌpoʊs(t)ˈmɑdərnɪstˌpōs(t)ˈmädərnist
  • A believer in or supporter of postmodernism.

    postmodernists rejected the search for broad generalizations
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He is careful to add that he is no postmodernist.
    • Postmodernists prefer local traditions which are not entirely led by rational and instrumental criteria, but make room for the sacred and even the irrational.
    • They are the much-misunderstood gurus of postmodernists.
    • Unlike most postmodernists, he doesn't enervate the past or its ideas with condescension.
    • This critique of modernist nationalism-as-mental-colonialism has come to serve as the fig leaf for the postmodernists.
    • Postmodernists are disillusioned with this triumphalist view of science dispelling ignorance and making the world a better place.
    • Social constructivist theories of science nicely complement postmodernists' angst against science.
    • Does that mean that the door is wide open for any interpretation, constrained, as the postmodernists would have it, only by intertextuality?
    • In all the areas we have looked at, there are very vigorous alternative intellectual traditions outside those promoted by postmodernists.
    • Postmodernists, by the very definition, like to dabble.
adjectiveˌpoʊs(t)ˈmɑdərnɪstˌpōs(t)ˈmädərnist
  • Of or associated with postmodernism.

    postmodernist theory
    postmodernist art
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The works nicely evoked the familiar postmodernist theme of cultural objects returning to nature.
    • The music is far from being a reheated postmodernist stew.
    • Both the copies and the rubbings are completely different in spirit from postmodernist appropriation.
    • His ostensibly modernist abstractions are constructed, to an extent, like postmodernist pastiches.
    • The mechanically reproduced images evoke a seemingly unlikely affinity with postmodernist concerns.
    • I am far from the first to emphasize what has been regarded by many as our quintessential postmodernist predicament.
    • Her intellectually provocative essay on the songs is touched by fashionable postmodernist ideas.
    • This quirky, sumptuous body of work presaged the ideas of many postmodernist image manipulators.
    • It combines the postmodernist use of heuristic concepts with a Chinese tradition of philological inquiry.
    • Her medium and subject matter flew in the face of traditional figurative aesthetics, feminist proprieties, and postmodernist biases, all at once.
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