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Meanings of high modernism in English

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Unfaltering confidence in science and technology as means to reorder the social and natural world.

        Usage of high modernism in English
        1
        And then there's moments of really high modernism … aggressively dissonant and irregular.
        Wired
        2
        One doesn't normally associate the patter of Marty Whelan with the classics of high modernism.
        The Irish Times
        3
        As the 1930s progressed, all the arts retrenched from the cold abstraction of high modernism to something more accessible and familiar.
        The Guardian
        4
        Elliott Carter's last orchestral work, Instances, written in 2012 at the age of 103, is characteristically focused, high modernism.
        The Irish Times
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