Sentence examples for he was appropriating from inspiring English sources

He was appropriating the film's taboo juxtaposition of Hiroshima with private pain and love.

But it is truer to say that Duchamp made a witty new variation on his old piece and that if he was appropriating anything, it was not Leonardo's work but a cheap reproduction of it.

To others, he was appropriating queer culture.

Now eight months after Paulson told the Congress that he was appropriating $700 billion to stimulate, another $737 billion by Congress isn't working.

But he became most fashionable when he was appropriated by Zappa and Ginsberg.

He was appropriated by a wide variety of readers, often with conflicting agendas — free marketeers, positivists, Indian and Japanese nationalists.

He shrugs off the criticism that he's appropriating other people's ideas.

There is that viral video on WorldStar where a black girl confronts a white dude with dreads on the grounds that he's "appropriating" her culture.

Taking a more modern and less expensive tack, he's appropriated himself.

The pictures in his second solo show combine images he's appropriated from the Internet or TV with images he's photographed.

But a representative said Webb was promoted because the chief felt he was appropriate for the job.