unmake
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How do we "unmake the self-made myth," Quart asks.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2023
There’s no choice in that; there’s no room to really unmake yourself from it.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
Just by wrapping the hanging ropes inside a loose rope, we could make a glorious tree — and just as quickly unmake it or change it into many different kinds of trees.”
From Washington Post ● May 25, 2022
In a swift 12 songs and 39 minutes, Vu grapples with what it takes to unmake and remake the self.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
Indeed, della Porta’s experiments led him to adopt the opposite view: that you can use a diamond to make, rather than unmake, a magnet.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
When Morpheus unmakes the Corinthian, he denounces the aggrieved entitlement of the Collectors telling them, "Until now, you have sustained fantasies in which you are the victims, comforting daydreams in which you are always right."
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
Again, she poses an idea through possibility: “Maybe the value of art, to artists and everyone else, is that it upends other value systems. Art unmakes the world made by art.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2020
That which makes us also unmakes us, and the process of living seems inextricably bound to the process of dying.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017
“Language makes and unmakes reality,” says Sally Elliott, the aspiring writer character who serves as Coover's stand-in.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2014
The world unmakes stuff faster than people can make it.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Second, they believed that financial fortunes were made and unmade, above all else, by circumstance, meaning that defaults did not tar someone’s financial reputation for life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
Mexican media outlets published images of the cabin's luxurious interior, showing furniture with open drawers and unmade beds.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
Mr Evans said it was not "in the middle of nowhere" but was along an unmade track on "quite a busy" public footpath through the wood.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024
The unmade Quincy album made me wonder if writing this book made you mull over other missed opportunities.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2024
“Make the beds, will you? It does look messy to leave ’em unmade all day, and I’m not much on running up and down the stairs.”
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
“Because it is the unmaking of an agreement, rescission is an extreme remedy and should only be granted by a court of equity when it is ‘clearly warranted,’” the court wrote in the unsigned opinion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
What the voyage now represents is the unmaking of ideas from some of the great thinkers and creators of the age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2025
Bess entered the room and immediately started unmaking the bed.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2022
There you go: the breaking, making and then unmaking of the world in under two minutes.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2021
Back and forth you could go, confirming the exact correspondence between reality and image, making and unmaking your own world.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
