What's the difference between brutalism and modernist?
Brutalism
Definition:
(n.) Brutish quality; brutality.
Example Sentences:
(1) The arrest of the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, as well as a photographer and her partner, is a brutal reminder of the distance between President Hassan Rouhani’s reforming promises and his willingness to act.
(2) The analysis of the causes of hunger current in the 1970's can be summarized somewhat brutally as follows.
(3) Their brutality seems to have been fairly even-handed, or if it wasn't, the men surely suffered enough not to be presented as the winners of the atrocity.
(4) It hasn't been so exposed to the brutal learning culture Scotland Yard has been through with cases like Stephen Lawrence and Victoria Climbié.
(5) My whole world was turned upside down by the brutality of it.
(6) The Florida senator said: “This simplistic notion that ‘leave Assad there because he’s a brutal killer, but he’s not as bad as what’s going to follow him’ is a fundamental and simplistic and dangerous misunderstanding of the reality of the region.” It’s unclear though how much the actual debate about policy between the two senators stood out from the political carnival surrounding them.
(7) "They have a retaliatory doctrine," Salah argued of the police, whose brutality was a major cause of Egypt's 2011 uprising , but who have become more popular after backing Morsi's overthrow.
(8) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
(9) "It's horrible and brutal to be that far back and searching for those gears and they're not there," O'Hare admitted.
(10) The Shah's secret police – Savak – became increasingly brutal, ultimately detaining without trial and torturing tens of thousands of Iranian citizens.
(11) These are the first western depictions of our animals, and what they represent are the inception of the specific cultural politics which your nation forced on my continent, its land and its people with unhesitating colonial brutality.
(12) Coming shortly after the regime's successful third nuclear weapons test, Rodman's public declaration that he was Kim's "friend for life ", and the young premier's ability to parade his western visitors on state media, angered critics who argued that the country's ghastly poverty and brutal human rights violations were inadequately reflected.
(13) The pro-free-market newspaper soon fell victim to brutal market forces.
(14) Zhang Gaoping, 47, told state media that he and his nephew were subject to seven days of brutal interrogation before trial – sleep deprivation, starvation, cigarette burns.
(15) Onset is generally brutal, as in acute enteritis or an extradigestive infection (ENT...) but persists, or else, more often, the syndrome appears insidiously over several days.
(16) As the brutality of the crackdown increased, there were reports of some small-scale defections within the Syrian army.
(17) Police said the brutal injuries to the boy clearly caused his death and investigators were not looking for anyone else.
(18) If so, they will be more jihadist, sectarian, brutal and anti-western when they take Damascus.
(19) Concentrate on the way he constructs the space of an interior or orchestrates a sensual camera movement that he invented himself - the camera gliding on unseen tracks in one direction while uncannily panning in another direction - and you perceive how each Dreyer film almost brutally reconstructs the universe rather than accepting it as a familiar given.
(20) Everything that was, is more: brutality, injustice, poverty, anger; but also clarity, knowledge, understanding and, possibly, determination.
Modernist
Definition:
(n.) One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.
Example Sentences:
(1) As for Lord Rogers’s modernist estate at Chelsea Barracks , it was local opposition that caused Westminster planners to indicate rejection, leading the Qataris to withdraw their plan.
(2) The most promising addition is the under-construction National Museum of African American History and Culture, designed by the British architect David Adjaye and scheduled to open in 2015, which cloaks a modernist structure with shimmering bronze-coated decorative panels.
(3) While Klimt was creating modern art there, Hitler was going to the opera to hear Wagner (conducted by the modernist Gustav Mahler), and soon eking a living painting drab topographic scenes.
(4) But a recurrent post-modernist trait of her own was that Reg’s potential son-in-law from hell is one among several fiction writers in her fiction.
(5) Early on during his studies, he found unpaid work in the office of the architect and town planner Lúcio Costa, one of the few modernists practising in Brazil at that time.
(6) Both A Yi and Bi Feiyu talk about how their earlier work included more modernist formal experiments, though, as A Yi explains it, they eventually decided that "the water was more important than the cup".
(7) This latest upswing in themarket for impressionist and modernist works simply represents a more cautious investment in art’s bluechip stocks and given the limited supply, we’ll no doubt see a new sale record very soon.
(8) What Modotti brought to Mexican Folkways was her radically modernist eye, now focused more on the working classes than on buildings and technology.
(9) Pertinently enough, Wheldrake defended the author on the following grounds: "I have never understood the modernist prohibition against sentimentalism and emotional appeals.
(10) And the discordant, modernist soundtrack (Penderecki, Ligeti, Bartók) has few equals.
(11) Was he a modernist radical, an old-fashoined romantic, or a Nazi sympathiser?
(12) This modernist structure is just a curtain-raiser for what is to come.
(13) Much to the modernists’ discontent at the time, Copenhagen’s development took a different trajectory, and managed to escape the congested concrete clutches of modern urban planning.
(14) But it's obvious from the start that there are no deferential nods to Egyptian, classical, modernist or postmodernist modes, no reassuring "quotes" like the over-cute pilasters that adorn the extension to London's National Gallery by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.
(15) The prince routinely opposes modernist architecture and advocates traditional styles based on historical precedents.
(16) They were pillaging our shit,” Gates says, speaking of the modernists, who were influenced by deliberately abstracted proportions and forms in African figural carvings, often meant to represent more than one person.
(17) Just the fact of its being there at all took my breath away - a discordant modernist appendage to the gilded baroque former courthouse which is the entrance to the museum, and thus a symbolic reproach to bürgerlich Berlin itself.
(18) Cardinale made them at the same time, flitting from Fellini's modernist, black-and-white vision of Rome to Visconti's sumptuous recreation of 19th-century Sicily.
(19) Blatter will be a sprightly 94 years old by then, so if you think his judgement's gone now, it'll be very interesting to see what modernist masterpiece he commissions when the task finally needs sorting.
(20) It was subsidized by a massive governmental program to build highways and freeways and by a withdrawal from public life and public space, which suburbanizing modernist designers saw as useless, chaotic and menacing, when they saw it at all.