deconstructed

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The art that he created there embodies a kind of deconstructed narcissism; Samaras is fascinated with himself, but mostly as—to paraphrase the photographer Garry Winogrand’s choice of subjects—“something to be photographed.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

The album attempts to recreate that feeling with a series of abstract, futuristic soundscapes and deconstructed club tracks.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025

Here’s the main reason: because, by the end, we’ve deconstructed him and made him less interesting.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2025

Along with Carnival and the city’s festivals, Bourbon taught me what a crowd of strangers could be good for: My everyday self could be deconstructed, connected to others, and then put back together, somehow nourished.

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2025

On the other hand, Adams possessed a congenital affinity for deconstructed interpretations of history, of his own life, indeed of practically everything.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis