What is "appropriates"

Usage examples of "appropriates".

And so, in exemplary postmodern fashion, Morrison vandalizes, appropriates, and recycles the most diverse, incongruous sources.

This abstract, impersonal presence, like a vampire or a virus, appropriates their bodies in order to replicate itself.

Yet language, like a virus or like capital, is in itself entirely vacuous: its supposed content is only a contingent means (the host cell or the particular commodity form) that it parasitically appropriates for the end of self-valorization and self-proliferation.

Language does not represent the world: it intervenes in the world, invades the world, appropriates the world.

The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products.

What, therefore, the wage-labourer appropriates by means of his labour, merely suffices to prolong and reproduce a bare existence.

What, therefore, the wage laborer appropriates by means of his labor merely suffices to prolong and reproduce a bare existence.

To-day the Hôtel-de-Ville appropriates five loads of cloth which have been dispatched by the Government, and the district of Saint-Gervais opposes the decision of the Hôtel-de-Ville.

Whatever else he appropriates, the power of circumstances places in his hands.

The Parliamentary Republic, together with the bourgeoisie, then appropriates the whole stage.

Woe to the egoist who appropriates to himself a single word of this inheritance of the Word.

They've long since been pulled back in, and stored where Maury can see that no subordinate appropriates them.

Every shipment that goes through this center will have a big seal put on it, announcing that it is under the special protection of the Interstellar Investigations Corporation, and that secret hidden methods of extraordinary craft will be used to track down and punish anyone who unlawfully appropriates the contents.

All that my own egotism appropriates in the book are some occasional remarks, the natural result of practical experience.

And Aunt Renée Topham coolly appropriated them, as she appropriates everything else she can.