Sentence examples for appropriation a from inspiring English sources

But what's most exciting about nu-kawaii is that it is living proof that "cultural appropriation"—a term that has become tainted in the music world by the likes of Katy Perry and co doesn't have to be straight-up theft.

Those figures do not include mandatory spending on programs that require no annual Congressional appropriation, a category that includes Pell grants for college students.

This strikes some as a particularly cynical bit of appropriation: a grass-roots food scene turned into a theme-park facsimile, just a few subway stops away.

Cultural appropriation, a topic Madonna didn't have to deal with during those heady days when normal people couldn't make their voices heard, was suddenly an issue.

With some notable exceptions, the new breed of uppity 3-D seems less like an exploration of the format than an exercise in camp appropriation — a way of punching up at corporate greed and spoofing Hollywood excess.

That reading of the law was viewed as unusual by many copyright experts, galleries and leading art museums, who warned that it could have a chilling effect on art that relies on appropriation, a controversial but longstanding postmodern artistic strategy.

[H]e's signed an "anti-earmark" pledge, and considers any appropriation an earmark.

For one, it was an appropriation of a hit television program at a time when it wasn't all that easy to appropriate video. .

It is an appropriation of a famous text by Jean Baudrillard called The Conspiracy of Art.

To what extent this is an appropriation of a common sense discourse, one that equates communication disorders with institutional escalations or crises, it is too early to say.

They began jamming together, originally as the Artistics (later the Autistics, a sporting appropriation of a campus joke).