Sentence examples for comic displacement from inspiring English sources
The earlier sections of the book are written in a voice far closer to the voices in "Baby," "Friday" and "Eve" than the one that tells us: " 'The Awful Truth' gives one last glimpse of sexual desire in which the aroused human being, through a process of comic displacement and diminishment, is reduced to a clockwork mechanism, disappearing into the entrails of time.
The North African artists Eyoum Ngangue and Faustin Titi have created original drawings for a comic book about displacement, depicting a young African boy's failed crossing from Tangiers to Europe in search of a brighter future.
His wistfulness about this is delivered for comic effect, but he has an air of displacement, or exile.
I saw myself in Shanti's struggles with displacement and culture, in Jennifer's comic book habit and her exasperation with society, in Tiara's anxiety and silence.
"The truth is that everything I have done for the last eight years has been displacement activity for the half-written comic novel I should be finishing.
His latest, a novel, Magic Seeds, is the bleakly comic story of Willie Chandran who responds to the anxiety of his own displacement by trying to find 'his war'.
The sense of displacement.
"Gentrification is about displacement".
