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  • "Postmodern bundling," he said.   (source)
    postmodern = aims to please, surprise or amuse by dismissing the logic, simplicity, and order inherent in modernist architecture and by combining different styles or shapes in unexpected ways
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  • Drawings of their orbits would fill a gallery with postmodern art, but that's not my goal.†   (source)
  • The decor would be sleek postmodern, the food superlative, and the prices steep.†   (source)
  • Her father continued a few streets down and pulled up to their old house, a postmodern angry brown box with only one square window, right in the center—a huge letdown after their waterfront faded-blue Icelandic row house.†   (source)
  • More than one critic of the Seven Summits first to bag the Seven Summits vince of Irian Barat, Bass wasn't the kind limbers to follow in his guided bootprints, a swarm of other we and rudely pulled Everest into the postmodern era.†   (source)
  • That papyrus describing the postmodern condition is forty-five hundred years old.†   (source)
  • It was a rounded, postmodern McDonald's on the eastern edge of the city.†   (source)
  • Another postmodern sunset, rich in romantic imagery.†   (source)
  • The cathedral garth was a cloistered, pentagonal garden with a bronze postmodern fountain.†   (source)
  • We drove over two different bridges crossing a winding creek, past four different gardens, then through a second set of gates before coming to the main house, which looked like a postmodern version of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland—white-and-gray slab walls jutting out at strange angles, slender towers like organ pipes, huge plate glass windows, and a burnished steel front door so large it probably had to be opened by chain-pulling trolls.†   (source)
  • But I don't like a lot of the heavy postmodernist anthropology books that seem to dominate the field these days, and in any case those kinds of books aren't easy to come by in Hampton.†   (source)
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  • She told me how her roommate has perfected a way of entering and leaving a room in the loudest manner possible and how she took a Postmodern Fiction class just to fill a course requirement and discovered that she really loved it.†   (source)
  • Max sat down to take a breather, perusing some of the spines before him: Great Works of the Nineteenth Century, Art of the Baroque, Secret Techniques of the Old Masters, Dada and Surrealism, The Genius of Rembrandt, Hidden Symbols of Bernini, A Renaissance of Art and Man, Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century, The Postmodern Dilemma … "David," Max hissed, overwhelmed by the thick books and unfamiliar names.†   (source)
  • "A jeu d'esprit," says Charna, "which takes on the Group of Seven and reconstructs their vision of landscape in the light of contemporary experiment and postmodern pastiche."†   (source)
  • Sometimes, especially in the modern and postmodern period, those units slip and slide a little, and the octave doesn't quite contain its meaning, which may, for instance, carry over onto the ninthline, but still, the basic pattern is 8/6.†   (source)
  • With some writers, particularly modern and postmodern writers, irony is a full-time business, so that as we read them more and more, we come to expect that they will inevitably thwart conventional expectations.†   (source)
  • Many modern and postmodern texts are essentially ironic, in which the allusions to biblical sources are used not to heighten continuities between the religious tradition and the contemporary moment but to illustrate a disparity or disruption.†   (source)
  • In this category we get the grimy London of Dickens's late work, the fabulous postmodern novels of Gabriel Garcia Mirquez and Toni Morrison, the plays of Henrik Ibsen and George Bernard Shaw, Seamus Heaney's poetry of the Northern Irish Troubles, and the feminist struggles with the poetic tradition of Eavan Boland and Adrienne Rich and Audre Lord.†   (source)
  • Sometimes influence is direct and obvious, as when the twentieth-century American writer T. Coraghessan Boyle writes "The Overcoat II," a postmodern reworking of the nineteenth-century Russian writer Nikolai Gogol's classic story "The Overcoat," or when William Trevor updates James Joyce's "Two Gallants" with "Two More Gallants," or when John Gardner reworks the medieval Beowulf into his little postmodern masterpiece Grendel.†   (source)
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