Sentence examples for sort of displacement from inspiring English sources
The invasion of Iraq was one sort of displacement; the movies were another.
Then their youngest daughter appears, sees her mother crying and, in a miraculous sort of displacement, enables the wife to vent her sorrow and the husband to voice, obliquely, his anger and disappointment, and finally his love.
What I will take away from Oldstone-Moore's book is an argument not stated outright in the text but nevertheless contained within it: that beards are something people like to chatter about and legislate over as a sort of displacement activity when they find it too awkward or confusing to address the issues that actually matter.
This sort of displacement, driven by developers and embraced by the mayor, should be fought at every turn.
This sort of displacement of control through the expansion of mechanisms to manage through numbers has been illuminated starkly in the case of risk management in financial institutions.
"He said to us everybody in the Bronx wants some of what Brooklyn's got but without that sort of social displacement.
Maybe I'm attracted to that kind of displacement".
Chatting about Richter was a kind of displacement activity.
The referendum is a form of displacement activity.
Do you have a story of displacement?
