Sentence examples for displaced love from inspiring English sources

Merkin makes all the right arguments against the coddling of pets and their treatment on anthropomorphic terms, and I was in agreement -- that is, until she undermined her own arguments with the observation that pets are embraced "as status possessions, or substitute children, or displaced love objects".

As I work through the reality of divorce, where anger and disillusionment have displaced love, as I try to figure out my role in being the kind of change I want to see in this world, as I teach my children to love, not hate, I think of my parents.

There is no single or simple reason for this rampant misanthropy, but there are many suspects: the effects of unrestrained individualism, the demise of universal values of social integration and cohesion, and the rise of consumer identities which have displaced a love of people for a love of things.

Displaced maternal love".

Displaced maternal love.” Her friends spoke at the same time, saying in slightly different ways something to the effect that it might be stupid but it was, after all, love.

The incised identities of the diasporic 9/11 dead are displaced from loved ones and from traditional resting places for the dead.

The first political advertisement on the new medium ran in 1952, when Adlai Stevenson bought a half hour on CBS, displacing "I Love Lucy".

"My attraction to hunter-gatherer life doesn't displace my love of European civilisation or my desire to be in a community of people who are similar to myself," he says.

However, if you're like me, you might chafe at the imperative to displace your love of art into a vicarious relish of somebody else's pranks and caprices.

As if that were not enough, Anton Chekhov's 1897 masterwork of love displaced and dreams deferred was seen twice more last spring in separate productions in or near London (Lucy Bailey's Off West End version for the tiny Print Room was the best of them all) and has had multiple airings this year in New York, as well.

She abandons it - to the horror of her teacher - and her artistic and spiritual life is displaced into a difficult love affair.