the American social contract is being sundered

The neoclassical sequence of capitalist causality is sundered when the putative owner of property surrenders both control and automatic entitlement to its proceeds

Whereas New Criticism sunders the text from rational discourse and a social context

what Marxists like Hollowoy tell us has been sundered: addressing the ontological separation between the doing and the done

Wealth shall vouch for the possibility of reuniting what is sundered

described the world as being sundered between "two poles or extremes [...]"

The words on that sutured, sundered book of leaves