Example Sentences

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In general I’m asking: If your ambitions are more of a remaking of society versus a retrenchment, isn’t it harder for the remaker than the retrencher?

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2020

He was an ingenious collagist, a Duchampian user of found language, a playful smasher and remaker of the short story.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 7, 2017

This brilliant and surreal remaker of everyday life is renowned for works like La DS, an elongated Citroën DS.

From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2013

In her collecting, Webb became a remaker of these pieces.

From New York Times • May 19, 2011

Perhaps almost of the philosopher, the historian, the sociologist: the clearer away of convenient error, the unmaker and remaker of consciences.

From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Lee, Vernon