Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of destroying; destruction; undoing; also, that which unmakes.
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- verb Present participle of
unmake . - noun The act by which something is unmade.
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Examples
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Can human perversity any farther go, in unmaking the process of restoration which God has made?
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Le Guin — When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
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Le Guin — When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
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While I want to commend the panelists and the Museum for the truly splendid, diverse, and masterful videos selected -- an inspiring bunch -- their selections also prove to counter-productively re-entrench the very hi/low distinctions that the show seemed to be interested in unmaking.
Alexandra Juhasz: Guggenheim Got the Highs & Missed Wonderfully Defintive YouTube Lows
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While I want to commend the panelists and the Museum for the truly splendid, diverse, and masterful videos selected -- an inspiring bunch -- their selections also prove to counter-productively re-entrench the very hi/low distinctions that the show seemed to be interested in unmaking.
Alexandra Juhasz: Guggenheim Got the Highs & Missed Wonderfully Defintive YouTube Lows
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While I want to commend the panelists and the Museum for the truly splendid, diverse, and masterful videos selected -- an inspiring bunch -- their selections also prove to counter-productively re-entrench the very hi/low distinctions that the show seemed to be interested in unmaking.
Alexandra Juhasz: Guggenheim Got the Highs & Missed Wonderfully Defintive YouTube Lows
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It is the big money of professional golf that Mr. Adelson ultimately indicts for the "unmaking" of Michelle -- or, rather, it is her parent's thirst for it that he assails.
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Extensive extras on the dual-disc DVD release include an "unmaking of" featurette, interviews and "deconstruction", alongside three short films from Kötting who made this feature in French after funding failed in the UK.
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I would concludesome dystopian or descentto madness or unmaking.
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The ability to drag back career-unmaking words was staggeringly important.
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