Sentence examples for appropriations of a from inspiring English sources

If a common message can be gleaned through the mayhem of distant battles, it is that fragments of human decency can survive the furies inspired by contested symbolic appropriations of a jealous Abrahamic god.

And yet the sly appropriation of a urinal still irritates like an untreated case of cystitis.

He is similarly engaged with My Fair Lady, another unabashed appropriation of a masterpiece, Shaw's Pygmalion.

This clumsy appropriation of a specific power relationship and its application to the sex wars in the N.Y.U.

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

For this is not the first time an Ai Weiwei appropriation of a Han urn has been smashed.

Mr. Gray also said that the Board of Estimate had informally approved the appropriation of a million dollars for a campaign against rats.

The interest lies primarily in this young writer's fierce appropriation of a theatrical landscape that she can identifiably call her own.

Copyright lawyers have been arguing over Shepard Fairey's appropriation of a news photograph of Barack Obama for his "Hope" campaign poster and whether it constitutes "fair use".

Actually, the Streetfighter name is an appropriation of a widely used term for bikes modified to a bare-knuckle, stripped-down look.

"This is the appropriation of a country by one family and clan," Michèle Delaunay, an opposition Socialist lawmaker, said at the National Assembly.