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1924 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 16 Nov. Four works by Amos W. Engle which will please both the modernistically inclined and people of more conventional tastes.

1952 Jrnl. Philos. 49 648 Though ‘traditionalists’ are frequently enemies of progress, old traditions may, when investigated ‘modernistically’, be stimulants to progress.

1987 ‘A. Burgess’ Little Wilson & Big God (U.K. ed.) ii. 115 I tried to compose modernistically, but it was either too easy or too difficult.

1999 Independent (Electronic ed.) 12 Mar. Staring transfixed into the camera's lens, modernistically severe in wire glasses.