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  • verb Present participle of reinscribe.

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Examples

  • Pigeon-breeders reinscribing a defeat over mortality: little feathered souls falling, righting, and winning.

    Excuses & Around the Web 2007

  • But when we talk a whole lot about clothes and make-up and products with our folks, we may very well be (a) reinscribing gender stereotypes, (b) re-emphasizing our culture's sick obsession with appearance, (c) giving them the impression that we're scrutinizing their looks rather than seeing them through the eyes of love and Spirit and (d) avoiding some other, more rich conversation.

    Archive 2006-08-06 PeaceBang 2006

  • But when we talk a whole lot about clothes and make-up and products with our folks, we may very well be (a) reinscribing gender stereotypes, (b) re-emphasizing our culture's sick obsession with appearance, (c) giving them the impression that we're scrutinizing their looks rather than seeing them through the eyes of love and Spirit and (d) avoiding some other, more rich conversation.

    Strictly Entre Nous PeaceBang 2006

  • This process can then be unmonotonously extended into infinity, in both directions, thus reinscribing or reembodying, or re-embracing, bodies from within and from without into complex multiplicities, from within which embraced bodies or, sometimes, single bodies (or what we see as such) emerge.

    Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars. 2001

  • By reinscribing the idea of transgressing or transversing gender within a traditional gender binary-man in a woman's body, woman in a man's body-it contradicts goals shared by many transgendered and transsexual people: to live their lives as they desire, free of the gender binary.

    Serendip's Exchange smkaplan 2010

  • Her new cell phone has a camera in it, and so she sends him photos along with text messages, one shot she's taken of him reinscribing his earnest exuberance.

    PopMatters 2009

  • Rather than reinscribing onto these women narratives of victimization, the artist's intention has been to highlight their resilience within a patriarchal Confucian culture.

    A Birth Project 2009

  • Rather than reinscribing onto these women narratives of victimization, the artist's intention has been to highlight their resilience within a patriarchal Confucian culture.

    A Birth Project 2009

  • She writes: reinscribing an image of gay identity as primarily white, male, urban, and childless.

    Our Bodies Our Blog 2009

  • To Arabic-sounding music, they shook their shoulders and twisted their torsos, reinscribing a feminine prototype.

    Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com 2009

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