auto-destruct
verb (used without object)
auto-destructive
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a word derived from
auto-destruct.
Example Sentences
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Metzger issued manifestoes from 1959 on, portraying auto-destructive art as his response to capitalism, nuclear weapons and the destruction of the environment.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
For him, auto-destructive art was part of a lifelong refusal to be part of the capitalist system.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2018
But the overall project also recalls such mid-20th-century provocations as Swiss artist Jean Tinguely’s auto-destructive machines and the accidental sound collages that John Cage elicited from radios and record players.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2016
Like an architectural expression of Metzger’s theory of auto-destructive art, the edifice will stand for only a week.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2014
How many Who fans knew or cared that his ritual guitar-smashing was inspired by Gustav Metzger's theory of auto-destructive art?
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2012
