Sentence examples for rejection of modernism from inspiring English sources

"Murray is not a poet of the inner life".: J.M. Coetzee on Les Murray's sensory poetry and rejection of Modernism.

Conservative-fundamentalist leaders reiterated the creedal basis of the movement and called for the rejection of modernism and related trends, especially the teaching of the theory of evolution.

We must guard against a too sweeping rejection of Modernism, a dismissal of greatness along with all the gnomic trivia that academic Modernism, especially, has bequeathed us.

By the twentieth century, the Church's rejection of modernism — not only scientific thinking but also democratic liberalism, pluralism, and individual rights — had become so rigid that it was bound to crack, and crack it did.

A change in his political outlook from the radical socialism of his youth to an intense conservative nationalism was paralleled in his art by a rejection of Modernism in favour of a treatment of national themes in a realistic style.

The group didn't produce any buildings, but their rejection of Modernism and their radical ideas about architecture and its relationship to human life -- projected through drawings, diagrams, futuristic collages, films and writing -- were internationally influential.

As the name denotes, postmodernism was a reaction to -- nay, rejection of -- modernism.

At the same time, there will surely be a generational rejection of post-Modernism, though one shudders to imagine how it will be categorized (post-post-Modernist neo-Modernism, perhaps).

In Britain, they reflect the 1980s and 1990s' rejection of high-rise modernism, and a revived attachment to supposed vernacular architecture that often comes out looking downright kitsch.

In some media, what is meant by postmodern is clear and easy enough to point to: it is the rejection of the utopian aspects of modernism, and particularly of the attempt to express that utopianism in ideal or absolute form the kind experienced in Bauhaus architecture or in Minimalist painting.

Some critics have seen this as a rejection of European and American modernism.