How to Use postmodern in a Sentence

postmodern

adjective
Definition of postmodernnext
  • The jokes are in one way works of their postmodern moment.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2020
  • In postmodern dance, all of this stuff has been done before.
    — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Here was a postmodern love song dished out with attitude and verve by a band that seemed to come out of nowhere.
    — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • One thing is for sure: his book is a postmodern delight.
    — townandcountrymag.com, 4 June 2023
  • That's a lofty calling, but Conway could only fly so close to the postmodern sun for so long.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 13 July 2017
  • But thanks to the gut-punch beauty of his singing, the end result never sounds like a postmodern pastiche.
    — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Le Quinton said that the challenge in a postmodern era of doing any of this stuff is that the audiences are so aware and so smart.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 19 July 2018
  • The postmodern novel about a housewife in Ohio is written as one sentence, and is 1,040 pages long.
    — Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2019
  • At Milan Fashion Week, the latest epoch on the creative director's mind was the the postmodern.
    — Karina Hoshikawa, Teen Vogue, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Most of the film takes place in this glass-and-steel monument to Miles’ ego; its postmodern pop-art decor proves that old adage about money not buying taste.
    — Katie Rife, Chron, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The tedium of the pandemic might be behind a shift toward pieces from the postmodern era.
    — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
  • This post-postmodern one-two punch knocked readers on their asses.
    — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The United States had quietly waged a postmodern war on China, and won.
    — Paul Krugman, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Until the postmodern era, these methods were employed to enhance the figure and in pursuit of a set idea of beauty.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Brown’s early pieces were not easy, even for those committed to postmodern dance.
    — F.r. | Edinburgh, The Economist, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The internet has always contained the seeds of postmodern hell.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2018
  • But something else is lost, too: the irony or wry, gothic humor, the self-subverting postmodern wink.
    — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The atrium brought a splash of postmodern drama to an otherwise low-key structure.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The feed of Charlie Puth, a 30-year-old maestro of radio-ready cheesiness, feels a bit like postmodern performance art.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
  • But postmodern fusion isn’t the only way to expand the jazz audience.
    — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Styled much like a postmodern shipping container, there’s more than 41 cubic feet of cargo space, even with all three rows in use.
    — cleveland, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Yet the effect of all this uncertainty isn’t the usual postmodern absence of truth.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
  • This was something different: a little bit madcap, a little bit postmodern art project, a lot of run and gun.
    — Sam Schube, GQ, 19 Aug. 2017
  • Karl Lagerfeld is a complex, brilliant, postmodern sort of man.
    — Kennedy Fraser, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2019
  • There are also video projections and dance, ranging from postmodern to hip hop.
    — Josefin Dolsten, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Better, surely, just to acknowledge that the bad stuff was bad than to try to turn its badness into a postmodern triumph.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
  • Moynahan discovered her growing fame on the show in a very postmodern way.
    — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2024
  • In another writer’s hands, this tale-within-a-tale might have been an arch, postmodern device.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 14 June 2023
  • Even now, in the post-postmodern age of football, quarterbacks can excel because of subtleties.
    — Shawn Windsor, USA TODAY, 31 July 2022
  • Recently, some of the world’s biggest pop stars have been eschewing bangers in favor of a more postmodern, self-referential approach to the form.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 3 May 2024

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