Definitions
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- noun The state or condition of being
hypermodern . - noun art An
art movement distinguished frommodernism andpostmodernism chiefly by its extreme andantithetical approach. - noun chess A
school of thought which advocates controlling the centre of the board with distant pieces rather than withpawns , thus inviting the opponent to occupy the centre with pawns which can then become objects of attack.
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Examples
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But it undermines Stove's case, because if Goebbels and Zhdanov's cultural policies had anything in common, surely it wasn't that they fostered "hypermodernism" -- on the contrary, in fact.
You'll Never Get Rich Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Instead, he became the dark prince of hypermodernism, or Postmodernism, if you will.
RenewAmerica 2009
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