Search Details

Word: deconstructed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Academics ruin sex. They analyze it, explain it, deconstruct it, and by the time they're done, you wish they had stuck to talking about Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. So when the Museum of Sex opened in Manhattan, I shouldn't have been surprised that it was heavy on the museum and light on the sex. Maybe if it were called the Museum of Erotic History, I wouldn't have been as disappointed. But when I heard about the Museum of Sex, my mind shot right past museum and straight to the sex part. I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having Sex, Museum-Style | 10/15/2002 | See Source »

...when students put off their work until the last minute, force themselves to churn out mini-theses overnight and complete the finished product with less than an hour to spare: confidence. It takes remarkable amounts of faith and certainty in oneself to leave a mere twenty-four hours to deconstruct Kantian metaphysics or to absorb the entire set of mechanisms for an orgo exam. For many of us at this school, myself included, the thought of waiting until the last minute to complete an assignment worth half of the final grade makes us sick to our stomachs. For others, it?...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Procrastinators Among Us | 5/10/2002 | See Source »

Birmingham seeks to further deconstruct his image as part of the state political machine by emphasizing his record of legislative leadership in core issues such as education, health care, housing and the environment...

Author: By David S. Hirsch and Christopher M. Loomis, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Gubernatorial Race To Focus on Image | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

...film." Cate Blanchett and Julianne Moore, who signed on as Quoyle's love interests, both praised the freedom Hallström gives actors. "I don't impose performances," he says. If he's displeased, "he'll coax," says producer Leslie Holleran. "He doesn't want to be negative and deconstruct." Instead Hallström says he just tries "whatever it takes - improvisation, lots of takes" - to get the job done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homeward Bound | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...provides an excellent counterpart to Erlich’s theatrics, taking a common sense approach to dealing with the boys that eventually brings at least Ricky down to earth. Fee shows a winning ability to sum Ricky up in a glance and deconstruct his public image, making him know his role and shut his mouth for the first time...

Author: By Ian P. Campbell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Hooters’ More than Eye-popping | 11/16/2001 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Next