modernism

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Modern & fashionable
ahead of timephrase
be (all) the rageidiom
be having a momentidiom
funky
futuristic
futuristically
get with the programmeidiom
go ahead
granola
sleekly
sleekness
smartly
smartness
snappily
the avant-garde
up to date
up-to-the-minuteidiom
way-out
with it
à la mode

Examples of modernity

modernity
As a result, philosophical modernity assumes that human beings are merely a higher form of animal life resulting from a slow evolutionary process.
Especially in the field of witchcraft studies, an important part of ongoing debates centres around the ' modernity ' of witchcraft.
However, the old classical norms still operated in the midst of modernity, as is clear from a glance at contemporary dramatic criticism.
She outlines the relationship between modernity and the ' popular ', one of the principal thematic strands that links the essays together.
While modernity may have gone wrong, while it may not have yielded the culture, affinities, and social promises it intended, it is still modernity.
He succeeded in reuniting tradition and modernity, and in making measure useful and meaningful once again.
Both, however, insist that an understanding of the modern occult will change how we understand modernity.
Women play a crucial role in material expressions of the identity of pastoral groups, in power relations, local knowledge, social relations, and modernity.
Second, it gets at a kind of cultural/musical formation which is typical of globalising modernity.
The success of the project is in inverse proportion to its ambition - and these essays attempt a complete theological overturning of secular modernity.
The later "developmentalisms" of post-independence states were also subjected to new scrutiny in the light of a critical rethinking of modernity.
This is why archaeology, like anthropology, is always an (indirect) commentary on modernity.
Rather, they consider the centralization and reform efforts of the 19th century as the major instruments responsible for progression toward modernity.
Fashion, acute time-aware dress sense as a form of self-statement, perhaps did indeed have close links with modernity.
But it is a rewriting that yields a nicely ironic conclusion to the story told here, of the coincidences and conflicts between modernism and modernity.
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