deconstruct

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[ US /ˌdikənˈstɹəkt/ ]
[ UK /dˌiːkənstɹˈʌkt/ ]
VERB
  1. interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstructing
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How To Use deconstruct In A Sentence

  • Moreover, don't these choices facilitate a feminist reading of the text, deconstructing sentimentality to expose masculine failings and feminine rebellion?
  • After laying down the melody, he proceeded to deconstruct it, pulling it into new shapes, twisting, fragmenting, yet never losing touch with his starting point.
  • Finally, this paper explains what is the spirit of Marxism which Derrida always asks us to inherit, and what is the relationship between his deconstructionism and Marxism.
  • Deconstruct him: he isn't worth it; deconstruct yourself: your behaviour is ridiculous. THE KINDEST USE A KNIFE
  • The present study is divided into three chapters, and each of them deals with one special pheonomeon of musical genre: modification, fusion, and deconstruction.
  • For a half-dozen albums, the sentimental chanteuse has avoided mimicking other people's songs, opting instead to bend and deconstruct the material to fit her mood.
  • Call us a bunch of self-referential, mocking, postmodern deconstructionist ironicists, if you will. Times, Sunday Times
  • You tell us your theoretic can't tolerate extreme adaptations, coordinated mutational events and expression suiting, or the possibility of any organism that hasn't already existed at some point (and been duly deconstructed) ever existing at all. Behe's Test
  • There is a shuttling back and forth between what is being deconstructed and what is being reconstructed. Critical Social Research
  • Similarly, structural analysis is replaced by deconstruction which also questions its objects rather than reflecting them.
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