The phrase "attempts to explode the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is trying to challenge, dismantle, or critically analyze a concept or idea.
Example: "The author attempts to explode the myth that success is solely based on hard work."
Alternatives: "seeks to debunk the" or "tries to dismantle the".
Some of myths she attempts to explode were already on the ropes.
More than 150 works will be brought together in an attempt to explode some of the falsehoods and myths which surround the last years of Turner.
Stocks took a hit in the pre-market session Tuesday after several armed men attacked the U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria their attempt to explode a car bomb outside the mission was ultimately foiled.
Ultimately, Esterházy's attempt to explode epic until it resembles the shards and mirrors of his own style doesn't quite live up to its ambition, though it yields many extraordinary moments.
Most of the locals were too angry, especially about Heemeyer's decision to demolish the home of a former mayor's 82-year-old widow, and his decision to fire a volley from a.50-caliber rifle in an attempt to explode massive propane tanks across the street from a dense cluster of senior housing.
The former American Treasury Secretary and Labour's shadow Chancellor, in a new report produced yesterday by the Centre for American Progress, attempt to explode a bomb under this theory of a virtuous economic circle.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the network's affiliate in Yemen, hatched two other failed plots — the 2009 attempt to down a Northwest Airlines flight over Detroit by a Nigerian man with a bomb in his underwear, and a 2010 attempt to explode bombs hidden in printer cartridges aboard two U.S.-bound cargo jets.
If a fizzled attempt to explode propane in a car in Times Square can drive Lieberman to summarily sacrifice centuries of this nation's devotion to the rule of law and protection of the individual, it wouldn't take much to send him into the dark world of totalitarian madness.
Together, the four members of Throbbing Gristle —Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti (Megson and Newby's adopted names), and Christopherson and Carter proceeded in attempting to explode traditional concepts and understandings of music, breaching not only song structures, but textures as well.
