(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.
Proponent
Definition:
(a.) Making proposals; proposing.
(n.) One who makes a proposal, or lays down a proposition.
(n.) The propounder of a thing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although it appears to come within the confines of privacy, assisted suicide constitutes a more radical change in the law than its proponents suggest.
(2) Both sides agree that antigenic diversity is advantageous although selectionists see benefits in individual mutations whereas the proponents of random genetic drift see the advantage in the parasite's capacity to tolerate diversity per se.
(3) It is said that the science around climate change is not as certain as its proponents allege.
(4) He is also a vocal proponent of the benefit cap , finding it disgusting that some families can claim more in benefits than the average person earns, even while he finds it intolerable that he can only claim in accommodation expenses £2,000 more than the cap .
(5) He is a “caricature machine politician” , Goldsmith has claimed, but also the proponent of “divisive and radical politics” .
(6) Hungary, now one of Europe’s keenest proponents of border protection, was less than a century ago part of a polyglot, multinational commonwealth, the Austro-Hungarian empire.
(7) George Osborne, the chancellor, whose Tatton constituency lies on the expected route, is a crucial proponent in unlocking the £33bn spend.
(8) Queen Victoria’s physician was a great proponent of the value of tincture of cannabis and the monarch is reputed to have used it to counteract the pain of menstrual periods and childbirth.
(9) Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was the major proponent of Greater Europe, a concept that also had European roots in Gaullism and other initiatives.
(10) Debate among proponents of these various proposals might be advanced if a common language were adopted with regard to certain key terms instead of the various meanings currently assigned to these terms.
(11) Psychologist Susan Blackmore is best known as the proponent of memes, but early in her career she was a parapsychologist.
(12) Proponents argue that freestanding emergency centers reduce costs by providing care in a more efficient manner and cause other health care providers such as hospital emergency rooms to reduce costs and improve service.
(13) Strong proponents exist for the combination chemoradiation, whereas others favor radical radiation therapy.
(14) Proponents of these schemes argue that it helps to rescue people from fuel poverty.
(15) But proponents argue a nuclear weapons ban will create a moral case – in the vein of the cluster and land mine conventions – for nuclear weapons states to disarm, and establish a new international norm prohibiting nuclear weapons’ development, possession, and use.
(16) The basic income has its proponents on the right as well as the left, with the former seeing it as a cut-price form of welfare.
(17) It was, I recall, an anarchic traffic jam of ex-squatters, ravers, and proponents of free love that chuntered slowly and messily through the byways and sometimes the highways of Thatcher’s Britain.
(18) According to some proponents and critics of research using animals, the greatest hope for improved conditions for laboratory animals is to be found in the system of self-regulation called for by recent legislation and the NIH's revised policy.
(19) Lord Mandelson, a former Labour minister and a keen proponent of electoral reform, said AV supporters had paid a "big price" for staging the national poll on the same day as the first elections since the general election.
(20) He said the shift to the neutral stance would allow nurses to talk to patients about it if they were questioned, but added: "That must not be confused with us being proponents of assisted suicide."