| Yet after the war modernists and their allies seized on this symbol of the antiquity of Japanese culture as a touchstone for their own designs. |
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| That contrast, at least, is not a fault, but an achievement, as profound as any to be heard in later moderns and modernists. |
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| In contrast to modernists and traditionalists, some young designers take modernist principles as only a starting point for their ideas. |
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| He studied for a time at the Art Students League, where he was introduced to the experiments of European modernists. |
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| To begin with, artists and critics, from academics to modernists, believed that American art lagged behind that of Europe. |
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| His respect for European modernists is passionate and some times surprising. |
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| Beck's art reflected the influence of classic modernists such as Kandinsky and Mondrian as well as the Abstract Expressionists. |
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| It is common knowledge that the Surrealists and many key European modernists came to New York to escape the war. |
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| On this tasting, though, I feel that the modernists with their technology have gone a bit too far in their aim of pleasing the consumer. |
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| Ideologically orthodox Communists were extreme modernists who believed in a centrally planned, technological society. |
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| When modernists eventually revolted against academic history painting, they did not uniformly abandon this august dream. |
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| At Passover seders, traditionalists who favor sweet kosher wine and modernists who prefer dryness can share this 2006 late-harvest chenin blanc. |
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| Some shred the beetroot, some julienne it, and some cube it, while modernists whiz it in a food processor. |
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| But Romantics, and modernists after them, needed to believe that genius in its own time is always neglected, misunderstood, etc. |
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| Hence the sense of rage that now envelops both modernists and traditionalists alike. |
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| Religion in the former sense is a cement for communal harmony, and not otherwise as some modernists and secularists believe. |
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| This now sounds embarrassingly quaint, but many modernists have sought such authority from museums. |
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| But while all avant-gardists are modernists, not all modernists are avant-gardists. |
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| Comprehensive modernists both, they explored art forms from film to opera. |
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| The book should be of great interest to readers concerned to understand the current reach of Joyce criticism, as well as to modernists and Joyceans. |
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| What the modernists of the 1920s and 1930s had wanted was a kind of materialist foothold that would sustain the progressive development of identity. |
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| Goebbels, in fact, would be seen as the leader most sympathetic to the modernists. |
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| In 1946 the modernists showed their work separately in the crypt of the Mariners' Chapel in St Ives and were consequently known as the Crypt Group. |
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| We resist getting typecast either as conservationists or modernists. |
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| He studied authors from the past along with modernists like Joyce, Eliot, and Pound, remarking how increased literacy altered oral cultures like Homeric Greece. |
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| But the ministers I called on were all unbelieving men and modernists. |
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| Meyer's selections set modernists against postmodernists, absurdists against realists, and popular fiction against classics. |
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| He was opposed by modernists such as Paul Reynaud and Charles de Gaulle, who favoured investment in armour and aircraft. |
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| Alexander Calder and other modernists made spectacular use of painted steel. |
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| The 1959 novel Absolute Beginners describes modernists as young modern jazz fans who dress in sharp modern Italian clothes. |
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| The programmes and their music were immensely popular, although their version of Scottish music and identity was despised by many modernists. |
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| Modernism also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief. |
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| While the school remained influential into the new century, modernists such as Margaret Preston, and, later, Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd, explored new artistic trends. |
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| It becomes too easy to accuse any proposals for dialogue of catering to the so-called influences of modernists, feminists, and possible syncretists. |
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| Hindu modernists like Vivekananda see the Vedas as the laws of the spiritual world, which would still exist even if they were not revealed to the sages. |
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| Sukman argues that since 1945, Protestantism has been widely seen by Koreans as the religion of the middle class, youth, intellectuals, urbanites, and modernists. |
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| The trial became a focal point in the battle between religious fundamentalists, who believe in creationism, and modernists, who believed in the theory of evolution. |
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