Sentence examples for she appropriated from inspiring English sources

With supreme irony and simplicity, she appropriated two quintessential emblems of power.

Perhaps she appropriated it from a black boyfriend; the pose has a vaguely postcoital quality.

Everybody agreed that she had good manners until she appropriated some clothes that weren't meant for her.

But Hart had great affection for her, which Bach discounts, ominously suggesting, without explanation, that she "appropriated" Moss "in some unsettling way".

If she appropriated certain virile entitlements the way she borrowed her lovers' sweaters and overcoats — and elements from the uniforms of their grooms, gamekeepers, and crewmen — there was no militance to her chic.

Her sensibility is deeply rooted in Delhi's mixed culture, but she appropriated the language of English modernism and Woolf, as well as Japanese, Russian, and existentialist literature, to convey something very Indian.

She appropriates them in order to tell her own stories, as well as theirs.

Or was she appropriating him for her own ends in an act of empowerment?

And Ms. Blazer has a couple of tastily dry comic moments, as when she appropriates some held-over applause from an Ebersole encore of "Alive".

Critics such as Lee Siegel, who waspishly dubbed her the queen of "Nice Writing", have suggested she appropriates others' pain in a parade of empathy.

She appropriates the ruin of Carthage for the purposes of her own speculation.