Example Sentences

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There is a certain antimodern, punitive aspect to these discussions.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2023

I like what the historian Frederick Cooper says: scholars should stop “shoehorning political discourse into modern, antimodern, or postmodern discourses” and instead “listen to what is being said in the world.”

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2016

His methods paved the way for modern detection, and yet it's harder to imagine a more antimodern figure.

From Salon • Jul. 31, 2011

Nothing irritates Maritain more than to be accused of reaction or medievalism; he insists that his "antimodern" position is actually "ultra-modern."

From Time Magazine Archive

The antimodern, or "postmodern," movement of the past decade has shaken this complacency.

From Time Magazine Archive