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  • noun Plural form of modernist.

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Examples

  • The mentality of the modernists is Hegelian, just like the mentality of communists is Hegelian.

    His Lordship Gives an Update Francis 2006

  • The mentality of the modernists is Hegelian, just like the mentality of communists is Hegelian.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Francis 2006

  • The divide between traditionalists and modernists is likely to widen in the coming years.

    Beyond Belief 2005

  • The divide between traditionalists and modernists is likely to widen in the coming years.

    Beyond Belief 2005

  • Actually some of the best writers of the 20th century, often known as the modernists, famously eschewed what you call story architecture.

    SOLVED: The Outlining vs. Organic Writing Debate | Write to Done 2009

  • To read it, you would think that serious music has always previously used major or minor keys, and the modernists were the first to move away from this.

    The Rest is Noise Brian Clegg 2010

  • To read it, you would think that serious music has always previously used major or minor keys, and the modernists were the first to move away from this.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Brian Clegg 2010

  • Some of the modernists were the forerunners of the modern apartment units and the dorm rooms.

    The Longevity of the Victorian Architecture 2007

  • Briefly, these authors are modernists, which is to say that they are impassioned by a search for new forms.

    cfbc interviews jlundberg 2005

  • Some diversity would have been welcome, beyond the two booths offering African sculpture Entwistle and Alain de Monbrison and the smattering of Latin American modernists, including the Venezuelan Op-artist Carlos Cruz-Diez, at the Mayor Gallery.

    NYT > Home Page By KAREN ROSENBERG 2011

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