Sentence examples for straightforward appropriation from inspiring English sources

The two become roommates, and Pinky's worship soon devolves into straightforward appropriation.

His first major character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, was a straightforward appropriation of Felix; when he lost the rights to the character in a dispute with his distributor, Disney simply modified Oswald's ears and produced Mickey Mouse.

As funding processes for the next year begin to move, Congress and the president should push back on riders wherever they appear and make sure that the business of funding government remains just that: a straightforward appropriation of resources for the agencies and safeguards that protect the American people.

That's why, musical chops not withstanding, the recent trend towards unambiguously white music (whatever rock thing Chris Cornell is doing in "You Know My Name") or towards straightforward appropriation of black sound, black music, black voices (Adele and, if his catalogue is any indication, soon Sam Smith) is so troubling.

Such reviled material is a source for his photographs, and his appropriation technique is straightforward.

The ruling is, in my opinion, a pretty straightforward reading of the law, which is actually an annual appropriations rider called the Dickey-Wicker amendment, which prohibits the expenditure of federal money on any research that'll harm or kill a human embryo.

For example, Tanabe's early "logic of the specific," with its concern for the manner in which ethnic specificity mediates the particular individual and universal humanity, can be read more as a critical appropriation of Hegelian dialectical logic and political philosophy than as a straightforward development of East Asian or Buddhist thought.

It may be unfair to judge by the video shown here, but two thoughts come to mind: a series of straightforward interviews with people in Hiroshima would be more powerfully informative than Mr. Wodiczko's portentous spectacle; and Mr. Wodiczko's appropriation of Hiroshima's trauma for his own avant-garde program, however well intentioned, seems presumptuous.

An example of racist appropriation?

Update?" deals with Postmodernist appropriation.

"Appropriation and theft are part of that".