Definition of vanguardist in English:
vanguardist
noun
See vanguard
‘For these vanguardists, if something attracted the painter's gaze, it was worthy of being used as the basis of a painting.’
- ‘But in New York, the gifted young sculptor became a sort of society vanguardist whose soigne work was rooted in radical ideas that he made palatable.’
- ‘In some ways, it resembles a vanguardist revolutionary socialist organisation.’
- ‘Why does this segment of political militants, who years ago would have thought of themselves in rather vanguardist terms, reject the old imagery and find the discourse of anti-power feasible?’
- ‘We know that vanguardist groups resort to underhand tactics as a matter of principle, but this is a particularly scandalous example.’
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