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modernistic, a.|mɒdəˈnɪstɪk|
[f. modernist + -ic.]
Of, pertaining to, or suggestive of modernism or modernists; having affinity to or sympathy with what is modern. Hence as n. pl., examples of modernistic art, music, etc.
1909Daily Chron. 12 June 1/3 ‘L'Unione’ is denounced as reeking with modernistic and kindred ideas opposed to the principles and dogmas of the Roman Church. 1924Public Opinion 17 Oct. 383/1 The New Testament in relation to its own time is essentially and boldly modernistic. 1927Sunday Times 13 Feb. 20/4 The audience liked its florid style as a change from more modernistic music. 1935Archit. Rev. LXXVII. 82 The beautiful new dance⁓hall, with its modernistic sofas and lalique panels. 1958P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xv. 190 George Shearing will be remembered for his very accomplished playing in the 1940s, not for his more recent vapid modernistics. 1960Times 29 Sept. 16/7 There is much to admire in this farrago of ‘modernistics’. 1973A. Behrend Samarai Affair iii. 30 A modernistic portrait in oils of the latest pilot boat. |