Sentence examples for appropriate the language from inspiring English sources

To read a page, a paragraph, a line from someone else's book is to bypass the common curiosity about what might be on a stranger's mind; it's to know with great certainty; it's to appropriate the language floating around in his or her thoughts.

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But here, in an act so rankly ignoble it demolishes the group's credibility, Gamergate and its sympathisers appropriate the language and memory of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks, an atrocity that could not have been more political.

At the same time, these genetic tests may actually be exciting to white supremacists because it gives them a scientific argument for the diversity of the European "race," which helps them appropriate the language of diversity and multiculturalism for hateful purposes.

Appropriating the language of cinema has made games successful as entertainment.

And as with Western music, fashion, food and politics, Asians are appropriating the language, remaking it in their own image.

It was the neocons who pioneered the hypocritical "human rights" discourse that justified Reaganite revanchism in the 1980s, they who pioneered the practice of appropriating the language of leftist internationalism for reactionary purposes.

And the text, the free-associative tales and observations written by Charles L. Mee and appropriating the language of Freud and others, begins to grow crass, spitefully invoking the word Jew and calling up nightmare images.

Many in this new generation of nationalists shun the trappings of old-fashioned white supremacy, appropriating the language of multiculturalism to recast themselves as white analogues to La Raza and other civil rights organizations.

It needs to be resisted at all costs and people with commercial interests in prostitution have opposed it by redefining prostitution as work, shamelessly appropriating the language of feminism to claim that selling sex empowers women.

Her sensibility is deeply rooted in Delhi's mixed culture, but she appropriated the language of English modernism and Woolf, as well as Japanese, Russian, and existentialist literature, to convey something very Indian.