How to Use postmodern in a Sentence

postmodern

adjective
  • This post-postmodern one-two punch knocked readers on their asses.
    — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Here was a postmodern love song dished out with attitude and verve by a band that seemed to come out of nowhere.
    — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Brown’s early pieces were not easy, even for those committed to postmodern dance.
    — F.r. | Edinburgh, The Economist, 9 Aug. 2019
  • But thanks to the gut-punch beauty of his singing, the end result never sounds like a postmodern pastiche.
    — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 16 Mar. 2018
  • This kind of inspiration/homage, in the postmodern age, should render a piece of art on its own terms.
    — Ira Silverberg, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
  • That's a lofty calling, but Conway could only fly so close to the postmodern sun for so long.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 13 July 2017
  • There was this postmodern urge to do things differently.
    — Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
  • There are also video projections and dance, ranging from postmodern to hip hop.
    — Josefin Dolsten, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Jimmy wants to create a performance piece that’s got a postmodern sting.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2026
  • No matter, this is Wilder at his most postmodern before such a thing existed.
    — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The atrium brought a splash of postmodern drama to an otherwise low-key structure.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Karl Lagerfeld is a complex, brilliant, postmodern sort of man.
    — Kennedy Fraser, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2019
  • Moynahan discovered her growing fame on the show in a very postmodern way.
    — Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Moynahan discovered her growing fame on the show in a very postmodern way.
    — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The internet has always contained the seeds of postmodern hell.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2018
  • In another writer’s hands, this tale-within-a-tale might have been an arch, postmodern device.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 14 June 2023
  • The tedium of the pandemic might be behind a shift toward pieces from the postmodern era.
    — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
  • But postmodern fusion isn’t the only way to expand the jazz audience.
    — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Each shot looks like a page out of a cursed tome of twisted, postmodern fairy tales, the images forbidding and slightly abstract.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Each shot looks like a page out of a cursed tome of twisted, postmodern fairy tales, the images forbidding and slightly abstract.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Yet the effect of all this uncertainty isn’t the usual postmodern absence of truth.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Until the postmodern era, these methods were employed to enhance the figure and in pursuit of a set idea of beauty.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Ross has never been modern, much less postmodern; with few exceptions, her pictures are in subtly toned black-and-white.
    — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Le Quinton said that the challenge in a postmodern era of doing any of this stuff is that the audiences are so aware and so smart.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 19 July 2018
  • Even now, in the post-postmodern age of football, quarterbacks can excel because of subtleties.
    — Shawn Windsor, USA TODAY, 31 July 2022
  • Better, surely, just to acknowledge that the bad stuff was bad than to try to turn its badness into a postmodern triumph.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
  • He is known for postmodern and apocalyptic novels.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Styled much like a postmodern shipping container, there’s more than 41 cubic feet of cargo space, even with all three rows in use.
    — cleveland, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Video glasses are the postmodern version of the propeller beanie cap , or via in-flight shopping catalogs.
    — Guest Blogger, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2012
  • Third, social news sites have become a postmodern form of citizen journalism.
    — Steve Paulussen, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 May 2026

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