postmodernistn.adj.

1914 J. M. Thompson in Hibbert Jrnl. July 737 The Post-Modernist is trying to find a scheme of forms which shall express the real and directly felt values of spiritual things.

1939 B. I. Bell Relig. for Living: Bk. for Postmodernists pref. xi The Postmodernist thinks that the Liberal's attitudes toward life and God are characteristic of a second-childhood.

1966 Encounter Apr. 73/1 Pop fiction demonstrates ‘a growing sense of the irrelevance of the past’ and Top [sic] writers (‘post-Modernists’) are catching on.

1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Nov. 751/1 Post-Modernists have substituted the body metaphor for the machine metaphor, because so much research has shown that we unconsciously project bodily states into architecture.

1986 H. Rose Women's Work: Women's Knowl. in J. Mitchell & A. Oakley What is Feminism? 180 Sceptical of the successor science project as merely seeking to develop an alternative hegemony, the post-modernists see the enemy as hegemony itself.

1993 Atlantic Oct. 64/1 In the 1980s this debate about sex and law became a cottage industry for feminist academics, especially postmodernists who could take both sides in the debate.

1926 B. I. Bell Postmodernism I. vi. 65 An infallible pope or an infallible hierarchy seems to his Postmodernist mind to contradict the technic of Jesus quite as much as an infallible book.

1944 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 24 672 The postmodernist poets, Luis Carlos López, Ramón López Velarde, and Nicolás Guillém are intensely American in their faithful interpretation of atmosphere and life.

1965 L. A. Fiedler in Partisan Rev. 32 508 I am not now interested in analyzing..the diction and imagery which have passed from Science Fiction into post-Modernist literature.

1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 28 Apr. 30/3 A process that culminates, by a curious but inexorable logic, in the post-modernist demand for the abolition of art and its assimilation to ‘reality’.

1988 L. Hutcheon Postmodern vi. 132 Postmodernist fiction is not really any more democratic or accessible than earlier modernist fiction.

1995 Guardian 20 Oct. (Friday Review section) 8/5 They are the post-modernist enfants terribles of Welsh drama, practitioners of designer theatre,..irreverent classicists.