noun
definition
A follower or proponent of modernism.
adjective
definition
Of, or relating to modernism.
Examples of modernist in a Sentence
None the less the book produced a profound effect, and that far beyond the borders of the English Church, and it is largely due to its influence, and to that of the school it represents, that the High Church movement developed thenceforth on "Modernist" rather than Tractarian lines.
Recent research has also extolled the Modernist features of their works.
Our newest infatuation is with this rare modernist build situated among Ebner Street, Wandsworth's Victoriana.
The outside of the building is in rather stark contrast to the modernist interior.
The reconciliation of apparent opposites has then given rise to additional modernist forms.
Additionally, some Buxton wallets have specialty features, such as the Mountaineer Executive Thinfold, which is an extra-thin tri-fold wallet, and the Modernist Double ID Passcase, which has extra organizational features for travelers.
A bizarre amalgam of modernist esthetics and Gothic might, the cathedral is still unfinished, with the completion date rumored to be 2020.
At the back of my critique of the myth of modernist method is of course a critique of the notion of postmodernity itself.
Heaney may be using it comically - it comes from the bleak opening of T.S. Eliot's modernist poetic manifesto, The Waste Land.
Or was it a collective neurosis at work, a modernist world trying to capture and tame the past?
This extremely reductive idea of painting is one reason why Greenberg's concept of modernist fell out of favor in the 1960s.
And even self-styled modernist buildings are beginning to look a trifle derivative and dated.
The series invites Jewish, Christian and Islamic theologians back to the word, recovering modes of scriptural reasoning that underlie modernist reasoning.
This extremely reductive idea of painting is one reason why Greenberg 's concept of modernist fell out of favor in the 1960s.
His photograph of a woman with F holes painted on her back, so her body resembled a cello, is one of the most famous nude photos of the modernist era.
In the 1930s, people outside of Japan began to study and understand the principles of Japanese garden design, and it strongly influenced the art and architecture of the modernist movement.
But ideas are difficult to kill, and it is possible that the Modernist movement may yet prove to be the opening chapter of a mighty revolution within the Church of Rome.'
For at least eight years before this he had been more or less in conflict with the authorities of his order, through his sympathy with "modernist" views, but the publication of this letter (afterwards issued by Tyrrell as A Much Abused Letter) brought about his expulsion from the order in February 1906.
In July 1907 the Holy Office published its decree condemning certain modernist propositions, and in September the pope issued his encyclical Pascendi Gregis.