Sentence examples for she co-opted from inspiring English sources

Not knowing a great deal about art, she co-opted someone who did: the critic Herbert Read.

In 2009 she co-opted Warhol's camouflage patterning and Frank Stella's radiating squares to spell out in eye-popping Day-Glo, "Daddy I Would Love to Dance," from the moment in the 1975 musical "A Chorus Line" when a female character remembers dancing around the living room with her father.

An example of her formidable tenacity occurred during the siege of Paris in 1870, when she co-opted her theatre, the Odéon, and transformed it into a military hospital, filling the dressing rooms, auditorium and stage with cots of injured and dying men and bullying her coterie of lovers into supplying provisions, including, allegedly, the overcoat off one unfortunate's back.

It's impossible to tell whether the child in your potential date's photo is his or her kid, a relative or just a baby he or she co-opted to make people go "Awww".

We see her growing awareness of her power when she co-opts Irina's bedroom for her little son and her capacity for cruelty when she mistreats an elderly servant (Barbara Oliver) who has been with the family for 30 years.

Ms. Kopple doesn't mount any arguments against the earlier film; instead she co-opts it, not only making liberal use of its images but also giving its director, Michael Wadleigh, and one of its editors, Thelma Schoonmaker, prominent voices in her retelling.

She not only promotes him without ceremony -- doubling his salary in a single off-handed sentence -- she co-opts his laid back existence, challenging him to be the star she knows he can be.

Bil Browning's been writing about commercial exploitation of gay teen suicide lately, but any discussion of the recent phenomenon isn't complete without talking about the over-hyped single expected from Lady Gaga, in which she co-opts a decades-old gay phrase that's now safe enough for the mainstream pop stars, "Born This Way".

When she first became famous, though, she was co-opted into the category of the happy-go-lucky, roly-poly funny woman.

She is co-opted in more insidious ways, too.

As the race continues and the delegate count goes in Clinton's favor, however, Sanders has sounded increasingly frustrated that she has co-opted some of his message.