Sentence examples for and the dislocation of from inspiring English sources
Joy Division assimilated the desolation of its environment and the dislocation of its era and gave it a somber glamour.
By contrast, Chongqing has relied on state power and the dislocation of millions to achieve similar results.
As Errejón has put it, Podemos rests on the assumption that Spain's two-party regime – founded in the aftermath of Franco's death in 1975 – is in crisis, resulting in a "breakdown in consensus and the dislocation of traditional political identities".
I wanted to tell the story of an opera singer who through years of travel and the dislocation of the virtual world was starting to lose any sense of where she ended and the opera began.
Sudhir Venkatesh ("To Fight Poverty, Tear Down HUD," Op-Ed, July 25) makes broad claims that the dismantling of Chicago's public housing and the dislocation of residents led to the resegregation of former public housing residents in equally poor neighborhoods.
That is the larger concern of the novel, by the Japanese writer Minae Mizumura, who in adapting Emily Brontë's classic has composed a fascinating meditation on cultural borrowing and the dislocation of modernity.
Told through relatable characters, Ng's tales show why he has become a leading Malaysian writer of Chinese fiction, representing in mood, voice, and rhythm the dislocation of a people and a country in transition.
"We were able to look at the credit markets and see the dislocation of prices due to credit and distressed sellers — not distressed debt," Mr. Duffy said.
While his work is routinely celebrated as an authentic reaction to the horrors and the dislocations of the Second World War, it can come off, in the telling, as a pageant of hangovers and refractory lovers.
The novel switches time zones, between harrowing scenes in and after the war, and the dislocations of Gregor's adult life, culminating in a reunion, in a farm in the country outside Berlin, of Gregor, Mara, their family and friends.
If your subject happens to be the dislocation of people and their suffering, then those people and that suffering become your compositional devices.
