deconstructionist
- a word derived from deconstruction.
- a word derived from deconstructionism.
Example Sentences
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He was a deconstructionist jazz master of liminal space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
He won't stop being who he always was, meaning an actor who takes on crowd-pleasing projects and a guy who calls himself an "anarchist, Marxist, ethical hedonist, nondiscriminatory empath, epistemological deconstructionist Texan."
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2023
It was a technique popularized by the French deconstructionist Jacques Derrida, who argued that certain words contain their own negation, which he signified by crossing them out.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
Letter to Jane is simply a deconstructionist essay/harangue, narrated by Godard and Gorin, critiquing the photo of Fonda, and also US leftism and Hollywood stardom.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2019
In reaction to claims that literacy carried through time, a general deconstructionist attitude challenges the permanency of philosophical tractate, of scientific systems, of mathematics, political discourse and, probably more than anything else, of literature.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
