Word: modishly
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...Harvard's French Department is not highly regarded, because it is viewed as a hotbed of modish feminist criticism," he writes...
Fashion is in a particularly ugly, aimless, self-parodying phase at the moment, so perhaps it deserves a chronicler as cynical as this one. Anyway, a cynic is what it got during the industry's big pret-a-porter shows in Paris last spring, when Altman mingled with the modish elite and found room in his film for many of them: designers Christian Lacroix, Jean Paul Gaultier and Issey Miyake, models Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington and CNN fashion maven Elsa Klensch...
According to Murray, a job seeker should "think about the industry" before choosing a wardrobe. While corporate jobs like consulting and accounting generally mandate traditional business wear, other careers, such as retail, accept more modish apparel...
Obviously the inconvenience of recreating old monuments in the theatre had bedeviled the set designer who had opted for a collage of old transistors and fence wiring. It's all avant-garde, you see, and dreadfully modish. I must admit, I marvelled at the array of newspaper clippings on the floor, and was in the middle of reading one particular item--about the demise of the pet hamster--when my escort forcibly removed me into our seats, muttering about the shame...
...America today, according to Kimball, "every special interest--women's studies, Black studies, gay studies and the like--and every modish interpretive gambit--deconstruction, poststructuralism, new historicism, and other varieties of... `Left Eclecticism'--has found a welcome roost in the academy, while the traditional curriculum and modes of intellectual inquiry are excoriated as sexist, racist, or just plain reactionary...