unbraid

There’s a lot of unbraiding you have to do.

Carefully I unbraided each of the Devil’s Shoestrings he had woven together.

But the most fruitful aspect of the film may be its themes, which unbraid and retwist the threads and conventions of the damsel-in-distress narrative even as they superficially follow them.

Now, however, the women’s movement seems to be unbraiding that identity.

Without trust, without confidences, family members unbraid themselves from each other and drift apart.