Sentence examples for postmodern from inspiring English sources

There are such totems of postmodern urbanism as a Chinatown, a gay village and a bohemian Northern Quarter, fed by two leading universities and two successful football teams.

Frank Sidebottom, resplendent in a fibreglass head, shuffled onto the 80s pop scene like a postmodern riff on George Formby or Norman Wisdom, full of guileless chatter and novelty tunes.

The men in gold trimmed unitards sometimes sweep across the stage like piratical gods; the women in postmodern tutus are glamorous, then regally remote.

"This isn't a postmodern critique," Turner says.

Memorable re-encounters have included a starry mid-90s production at the Lyric Hammersmith in which the old station master was played by Bill Oddie; and a postmodern version at Bolton Octagon directed by Lawrence Till that lifted the lid on the incredible sound effects (of which more later).

On the other hand, we have Quentin Tarantino, the court jester of mayhem, making good on the lurking connection between violence and laughter by making violence into its own comedy: hyperbolized, postmodern, extreme.

"That's not postmodern.

In any case, we don't elect presidents to engage in postmodern speculation about freaky alternative legal regimes that might obtain under science-fiction conditions and still satisfy human emotional aspirations and formal conditions of justice.

It turned out that the congress had been made up out of whole cloth by TASS, the Russian news agency.It was a postmodern tactic that might have been appreciated by the art world's most famous ethnic Ruthene, Andy Warhol.

I had never been to a postmodern rally before.

The result, "Noah", tells the tale of the ark from a postmodern, environmentalist perspective in which humans have pillaged the planetFrom our blogsAmericas: What if they had saved some of the money?Hugo Chávez largely squandered the riches of the 2000s oil boom.